https://www.donkeysaddle.org/archive daily 0.75 2021-06-16 https://www.donkeysaddle.org/archive/blog-post-title-one-5frnf monthly 0.5 2021-06-16 https://www.donkeysaddle.org/home daily 1.0 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/8f4699d9-0e46-4495-93a8-8f72436eea4c/DSP+Copy+of+Severed+Impact+Graphic.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/7fa9ceca-efb9-4d84-bed5-e4d5112cd652/abolitionist+reading+circles+4.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/mission daily 0.75 2025-09-17 https://www.donkeysaddle.org/contact daily 0.75 2022-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1fbc9298-4c57-4a6b-99e5-cf1d762747dc/Black+Mama+Bail+Out+fundraiser+rehearsal.jpg Contact - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/contribute daily 0.75 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/435d39a1-7e54-481b-88ed-fee3a58805cb/Turtle+Island+and+Palestinian+artists+TIAF+residency.jpg Contribute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/taylor daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1630523867774-29RLV08HHGD2KFQEWAN1/56400008.JPG Taylor Taylor is a writer, theatre maker, and communications professional based in Baltimore. She is originally from Virginia Beach, VA. The power of art as a tool for political education and to impact social change is something Taylor strongly believes in. Following that value has led her to working in the regional theater industry, writing for various publications, writing her own plays, producing independent web series, and more. When not working on projects that expand people's imaginations, you can find Taylor overanalyzing a TV show that has likely been off the air for 5+ years. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/jen daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1631321253469-XA01CV6WABEMR3F8LZTB/Jen.JPG Jen Jen is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects. Jen’s films include There Is A Field, Witness Bahrain, Remembering the Gaza War, Rebuilding Hope: Sudan’s Lost Boys Return Home and Darfur Diaries: Message From Home. Her books include I Am Troy Davis, The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian’s Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker and Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival. Jen identifies first and foremost as a social justice/human rights activist and considers her filming and writing to be tools of her activism. When not found filming, writing, protesting, or engaged in other forms of resistance to state and structural violence, she can be found backpacking on the Pacific Crest Trail or talking aloud to photos of Slider and Sadie, her neph-pup and niece-pup. She has human nieces and nephews (three of them biologically related and is an auntie to many others across the globe) whom she also adores. Jen goes by she/her pronouns and lives and works on unceded Duwamish territory in what is now known as Seattle. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/brittany daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1630524028821-QVCIFIAOPQDYHUUEQWZL/BK.jpeg BK Brittany is a poet, playwright, actor, and cultural organizer from South Florida. Bk utilizes her love of- film, digital video, music, photography, and theatre- to ignite our radical imaginations and create new stories to challenge our ideologies, and transform our world. Bk is writing her first play with Donkeysaddle Projects, Yo Te Esperaba, a story chronicling the life, and detainment, of reproductive justice and immigrant rights organizer Alejandra Pablos. She is currently a resident of The Miami City Theatre Homegrown Playwright’s Fellowship (2024). https://www.donkeysaddle.org/cherrell daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1632869736714-V4FR7E5P2OA0TF8S8F0U/Rell+in+Palestine.jpg Cherrell Cherrell, a community organizer and social justice educator hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. she/her/hers. Cherrell first came to movement work over a decade ago working at the intersections of anti-Black State violence and environmental justice. Her entry point into movement work was state violence, primarily ending the Death Penalty as she was a student organizer during the Troy Davis campaign. Her superpower is being able to blame literally anything on Capitalism and facilitating. She believes radical honesty, embracing conflict and following those closest to the problem will get us free. Cherrell’s love for student-loan debt has earned her a BA in Political Science from North Carolina A&T State University, and an MA in Human Rights from the University of London. When she’s not turning up on the system, you can find her at home attempting to recreate something she saw on The Great British Bake Off, and being a mom to her infant baby, DSP’s unofficial Executive Director, Fox. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/gabriella daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1631321615370-654X6KQLCMSQDPLPMN5C/Gabi.jpeg Taylor (Copy) Gabriella is a Palestinian-American organizer born and raised in the DC area. Since moving back to DC, she has focused on supporting institutional establishment and expansion for smaller social justice and community organizations in the U.S. She currently serves as the Director of Operations for Donkeysaddle Projects. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/heather daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1631321740254-NA8AKX9L1BSXGDG67EUE/heather-holmes.jpg Heather Heather is a performer, writer, and teaching artist from TX. She works with DSP Grant Management and Operational Support, and is a lead facilitator for DSP residencies and workshops. She has worked for the literary journal GULF COAST, and created, written, devised and performed original works internationally, in NYC, and regionally in the U.S. As a teaching artist, Heather has worked on various projects with young children, teens, college students, and adults, including: speech & theater workshops, movement workshops, teaching artist in residence, and a very special experience directing and devising in French and Wolof with developmentally challenged students in Dakar, Senegal. Heather attended Spelman College and the University of Houston, and holds a BA in English Literature/Creative Writing, with a minor in film studies. MFA, The New School. She’s a Hemispheric Institute's EMERGENYC Fellow, and Naked Angels Theater Company's Issues Project Lab Fellow. Current works in development include: a strange and beautiful performance project about dreams; a photography/performance installation following “¿Ruth?” based in NYC, the American South, and Tromsø, Norway; and some music stuff. Heather is a traveler and storyteller, an avid listener, and hopes to learn to dance like no one's watching. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/ciara daily 0.75 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/207486f2-4280-42c6-87fe-0caf6d0936d7/Ciara+Taylor+Profile+Picture.JPG Ciara Ciara Taylor is an artist, educator, and cultural strategist whose work weaves together sacred expression and collective action in the struggle for the liberation of the poor and dispossessed. She currently serves as the Director of Culture, Faith, and Organizing at the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, where she develops cultural resources, curriculum, and faith-rooted networks that reimagine our moral practice and creative responsibilities in the face of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and religious nationalism. Ciara is a founding leader of Songs in the Key of Resistance (SKOR), a cross-movement collective and gathering of artists, organizers, community and faith leaders on the frontlines of struggle through songs and storytelling. Ciara is also a minister with the Freedom Church of the Poor, a spiritual home for communities in struggle. Her artistic and ministerial projects include Songs in the Key of Resistance: A Movement Songbook, “Power in the Air”, We Do Not Move Alone: Songs, Chants, Poems, Prayers, and Artwork to be Used in the Call for Ceasefire on Gaza and a Free Palestine”, “Voices of Resistance”, and as a contributor to We Cry Justice: Liturgies of the Freedom Church of the Poor (2025). In 2018, Ciara served as the Director of National Partnerships with the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and as an inaugural fellow of Technology, Innovation, and Digital Engagement Lab (TIDEL)– housed at Union Theological Seminary and Sabbath Innovation Lab with Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s 1001 New Worshipping Communities 2024-2025. Ciara began her activism as a high school student organizing against the Iraq War, a path that would lead her to co-found the Dream Defenders in 2012 after the killing of Trayvon Martin. As the organization’s Political Director and later Director of Political Consciousness, she helped shape a new generation of freedom fighters committed to the spiritual, cultural, and political work of liberation. Her story and the origins of the Dream Defenders were recently featured in HBO’s Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom (Episode 6, “What Comes After Hope? 2008–2015”). Through every role she inhabits— as a seasoned facilitator and visionary leader— Ciara invites others to imagine and build what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to as the Beloved Community, a world rooted in revolutionary love, justice, and belonging. Her work continues to empower artists and faith communities to wield art and culture as sacred practice in movement building, political education and leadership development—a means of healing, connection, and prophetic transformation. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/amer daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1630531664395-VW8DAL4241X9HD9EGTTY/amershurrab.JPG Amer Amer currently serves on the Advisory Board for Donkeysaddle Projects and is the former Project Manager. Amer has received a Masters of Art degree in International Policy Studies and an MBA in International Management from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey California. He obtained a Bachelors of Art in Economics from Middlebury College in Vermont and attended the United World College of the Adriatic in Duino, Italy. Amer has participated in hearing and panels and tours across the United States to speak about the devastation that struck his family during the Israeli assault on Gaza in 2009. He also highlighted the suffering and numerous injustices Palestinians in Gaza suffer from as a result of the Israeli occupation and siege. Amer has spoken at the US Congress, Georgetown University, University of Illinois and the University of Arizona partnering with organizations such Jewish Voice for Peace, Islamic Relief USA and the American Friends Service Committee. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/nadia daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1630532097100-4PRJJ1NWBRSMARSDHXTB/Nadia Nadia Nadia (she/her) is the granddaughter of artists, refugees, and revolutionaries. Her ancestors have taught her to imagine a different world, to root the future in our past, and to trust that we are everything we need. Nadia is a storyteller who believes in the power of aesthetic force to awaken, disrupt, and inspire transformation. A human rights lawyer by training, Nadia currently serves as the Advocacy Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, a radical legal and advocacy organization working with social movements to dismantle racism, cis hetero patriarchy, economic oppression and abusive state practices. Her work often centers at the intersection of art and advocacy, and she curates exhibits and artistic programming that document key human rights concerns, celebrate social movements, and allow creatives the space to chart the future. Central to Nadia's lifework is a commitment to the liberation of Palestine, and she is a proud co-founder of the Adalah Justice Project. Nadia is happiest when she is dreaming and building with co-conspirators towards horizons of abolition, decolonization, and collective flourishing. Together with her family, Nadia is currently documenting the life and vision of her grandfather Salah Ben Youssef, a Third World revolutionary and freedom fighter of Tunisia’s independence movement who was assassinated in 1961. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/lachrisha daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1630531869814-RD5A1BLYRJ9BX6M9HLW9/LaChrisha+Brown.jpeg LaChrisha Based in NYC, LaChrisha is an actor and teaching artist. Currently teaching with Discovery Lane, she enjoys holding space for the growth and development of her students and peers. Within DSP she has facilitated the There is a Field and I AM Troy Davis workshops. “I was riding the L train to church one Sunday and I was stressing over the violence in the world. As I expressed to my sister how we needed to change systemic oppression, an Elder sitting across from us asked me, “If you want to climb a tree, where would you start? I responded, “At the trunk.” She smiled and said, “You gotta start with you first.” Til this day, that’s my mission...to actively be the change in my own heart, mind and movement.” https://www.donkeysaddle.org/leila daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633703484752-EJWNSXD5A2J56OKQQGOL/Leila Leila Leila is a Lebanese American writer, actor, and intercultural educator who has lived and worked across the U.S. and in 22 countries. She has performed and developed her plays with/at the Public Theater, Culture Project, Brooklyn Museum, Arena Stage (Best Performances, DC Metro Theater Arts), New York Theatre Workshop (Drama League nomination), and the Wilma Theater (Barrymore Award). A State Department Speaker Specialist and Cultural Envoy, Leila has led workshops and dialogues on theatrical tools for cross-cultural communication, self-expression and community empowerment with youth, aid workers, UN delegates and educators in Denmark, Geneva, Istanbul, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, and Lebanon. She received the Edgar Beckham Social Justice award for her work as artist-in-residence for Wesleyan University’s Doris Duke Foundation Building Bridges grant, teaching and creating interactive theatrical dialogues with students, faculty and community about the (mis)representation of Muslims in the U.S.. She has taught storytelling and theater for literacy, conflict resolution, and intercultural engagement with New York Theatre Workshop and Lincoln Center and at cultural, educational and community-based institutions across the U.S. and around the world. Her work is featured in/on TCG’s Finding Home Essay Salon; Stages of Resistance (ed. Caridad Svich); Innovation in Five Acts; Etching Our Own Image: Voices from the Arab American Art Movement, and Four Arab-American Plays. She is a member of the Public Theater’s inaugural Emerging Writers Group, a Usual Suspect with New York Theatre Workshop, and has taught Participatory Performance and Civic Engagement, Representation of Arabs and Muslims in U.S. Theater, and Creation and Representation in U.S. Theater at NYU. More on her most recent work at americandreamsplay.com https://www.donkeysaddle.org/nada daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1630532037579-BNSR2ZHH57HTJGVU0F6Z/Nada%2BElia.png Nada Nada is a Diaspora Palestinian born in Baghdad, Iraq and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, where she worked as a journalist covering the (un)civil war, before moving to the US. Now a Seattle-based organizer, her activism focuses on resisting institutionalized systems of oppression (state-sanctioned racism, sexism, and criminal injustice), and a political commentator and regular contributor to Mondoweiss and Middle East Eye. Elia is co-editor of INCITE! Women and Trans People of Color’s Law Enforcement Violence Toolkit for Activists, as well as Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, and is currently working on a manuscript about the politics of solidarity work. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/noelle daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1630532304158-7R2FAGMCDVF8623FOQCU/Noelle.png Noelle Noelle is a theatre-maker, ritual artist and cultural organizer. She creates expansive and genre-defying theatre and ritual experiences to: re-imagine liberation, nurture transformation and connect with spirit and the natural world. Her work can be experienced in public spaces, theatres, schools, parks, detention centers and healing venues and throughout the US, Europe and the Middle East. Noelle is dedicated to equity, connection and creativity for all beings. www.noelleghoussaini.com / www.shapelight.org Recent Projects include: shapelight (founding artistic director) The Jungle (Resident Director, Curran Theatre) A Skate Play (Director / Adaptor, Co-production of The Jenin Freedom Theatre and Skateqilya) Acquittal (Director, Pan Asian Rep), Dreamscapes (Co-creator / Performer, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center), 6 views: on women of power and interest (Creator / Performer, Venice Biennale), Mariposa and the Saint by Julia Steele Allen(Dir. National Tour) There is a Field by Jen Marlowe(Dir. National Tour). Noelle was also the recipient of the Laundromat Project Create Change Fellowship, was a New York Theatre Workshop 2050 directing fellow, a Target Margin Institute Fellow, a Hemispheric Institute fellow for artist activists and a member of the 2013 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. M.A. Arts Politics (NYU, Tisch). https://www.donkeysaddle.org/tara daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1630532350814-UC9424WU8F0E4J87193R/Tara+Tee.jpg Tara Tara believes liberation for Black people and the oppressed will only be realized through a global resistance which connects struggles and steadfastly resists anti Blackness and capitalism. She has garnered quite a bit of experience working against systematic repression from testifying at the UN Convention Against Torture in Geneva, Switzerland to direct action and programmatic facilitation. She works daily to support and uplift Blackness through word and deed. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/alejandra daily 0.75 2025-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1630694589013-GALCRQS00IX6VYXK438U/Ale+headshot.jpeg Alejandra Alejandra is a nationally recognized immigrant and reproductive justice community organizer who was recently detained by Immigration Customs Enforcement for 43 days. She was granted bond and brought home after communities nationwide organized to bring her home. Alé had already spent two years of her life in a private immigration prison in 2011 after pleading to charges that later targeted her for mandatory detention and deportation. She is being deported for a 2007 DUI and drug paraphernalia. Growing up in Arizona, one of the toughest sentencing and over-policed states, has informed her activism around immigration and mass incarceration. In both her professional and personal roles, Alejandra has centered her work in "community defense" education and challenging narratives about Black and brown criminalized people. Alejandra is a story-teller with We Testify where she shares her abortion story as an act of resistance and liberation. She is also a member of Mijente, a national political home for Latinx organizers, and has worked with many immigrant rights and prison abolition organizers throughout the country. On December 11, 2018 Alejandra was ordered to be deported by an immigration judge. Through organizing to appeal the decision, she, and her loved ones, created the “KeepAleFree” deportation defense campaign. They travel across the country connecting the struggles of all who are targeted in hopes of building communities that will protect Alejandra and the millions that are criminalized. 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This project includes Abolition Learning Circles (ALC), work on the #FreeBillieAllen campaign, and Yo Te Esperaba. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/62127a7b-a103-49c4-a11d-71a1ae867828/dsp.artivistsroom.png Home (Copy) The Artivists Room is a podcast that celebrates artists whose work is in service of uplifting community and highlighting struggles for equity and liberation. Hosted by DSP’s Brittany King, the bi-weekly podcast features in-depth discussions with artists, providing insight and inspiration into their work, their lives, and the impact their work has on their communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/d5c4c353-69ec-410a-8faf-47abfbb3cdad/3.png Home (Copy) The Freedom Film Series is a newly launched monthly offering to gather in (virtual) community and watch films produced by Donkeysaddle Projects and our partners, followed by intimate conversations with the filmmakers and/or communities profiled in the film. A portion of the donations from each event will benefit the communities in the film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/10468607-e4d9-4fae-abed-35632deb946b/ig.justicebeats.png Home (Copy) In May 2020, Justice Beats was launched as a full-day festival and fundraiser to uplift artists from communities directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and raise funds for organizers working on the front-lines of the COVID-19 crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/0ca87ae7-927d-4eeb-8a7b-c3471f7e44c6/dsp+projects+%284%29.png Home (Copy) Palestine Grassroots Distribution Project (PGDP) is a small grassroots humanitarian aid project which began in 2011, growing out of urgent needs experienced by families and projects that DSP connected to through our documentation in Gaza. It later expanded to serve other families in urgent need, on a small-scale, grassroots basis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/83fae0a9-d8f3-4c86-9ac4-3ad7c1682d1c/dsp+projects+%281%29.png Home (Copy) There is A Field is a film about the police murder of Palestinian youth Asel Asleh by Israeli police. Asel’s story is performed by Black Lives Matter activists in the U.S., highlighting parallels between state violence and structural inequality in Palestine and in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/d991a675-f757-42bd-8bc5-65866dfea7b9/dsp+projects+%282%29.png Home (Copy) Troy Davis was an innocent man on Georgia’s death row, who was executed in 2011. I Am Troy Davis is a theatrical protest against the death penalty and intersecting forms of state and racial violence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/c2323b98-dd50-4477-8231-282dcdf77a1a/dsp+projects+%284%29.png Home (Copy) With poetry, personal essays and performance, the Vignettes Collective looks at the impact of settler-colonization and celebrates the resilience of those who have been in struggle. Through the lenses of Indigenous to Turtle Island, Black, Palestinian, and Chicanx artists and activists, these vignettes offer intimate and visceral narratives of those oppressed in today’s settler society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/e8935319-4c49-4dae-8d7b-f9bd3ba64e2d/dsp+projects+%283%29.png Home (Copy) Yo Te Esperaba is an experiential performance project that invites the public into the personal story of immigration and reproduction rights activist Alejandra Pablos, who has been fighting deportation proceedings for almost a decade. Equal parts performance, installation, and public outreach, audiences will join a mother and daughter on their journey of family separation and reunion. Discover how the lives of countless women — mamas, caretakers, students, and community organizers — are disrupted by a system that deems them unworthy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/beb550dc-0a60-464b-b1dd-14c2da6a2ab4/2.png Home (Copy) https://www.donkeysaddle.org/the-abolition-project daily 0.75 2021-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633970527118-LL3I4PSAGQ8KILTVOCI1/sept+21+across+street.jpg The Abolition Project - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/0038f927-9e33-4652-80ff-d6bdca3d6497/Rell+leading+discussion.jpg The Abolition Project - Make it stand out ABOLITION LEARNING CIRCLES a political education series for artists and cultural organizers which teaches the history and praxis of abolition. We will utilize popular education pedagogy via a curriculum of six curated, weekly sessions to guide our communities in sharpening their understanding of abolition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633708224000-1AHH01DWUCT1WH431DPC/iatd The Abolition Project - Make it stand out I AM TROY DAVIS a project that grew from Donkeysaddle’s long partnership with the Davis family. Troy Davis was an innocent man on Georgia’s death row, who was executed in 2011. I Am Troy Davis is a book, a theatrical protest against the death penalty and intersecting forms of state and racial violence, and a documentary film currently in post-production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633970527118-LL3I4PSAGQ8KILTVOCI1/sept+21+across+street.jpg The Abolition Project DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION a national movement to end the death penalty that DSP supports through artistic/cultural work and organizing. We add capacity to death penalty abolition campaigns and facilitate bridge building between anti-death penalty work and the broader abolition movement. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/the-artivists-room daily 0.75 2021-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/0c6e40c5-3b0f-46bf-ab5f-58d8b7689328/Screen+Shot+2021-11-10+at+11.30.38+PM.jpg The Artivists' Room Hip-hop artist/emcee/producer, Jamal STEELE. Jamal is from Pensacola FL, by way of Panama City Beach, and he didn't initially see his music as a way to organize. It wasn’t until 2014 that he made the transition to being an emcee, one that spoke to the violence he was witnessing impacting his community. He started his journey as a musician in the church, and was initially discouraged by some of his community, from organizing and using his music in this way. Jamal found his organizing home in Pensacola, and has since then continued to combine his passion for music to aid his grassroots work. He shared with us a spoken word piece entitled “Stand your ground”, initially written as a song in response to the senseless murder of young Trayvon Martin it has since been modified to honor the lives of the young people we’ve lost since then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1632852685165-R7AJFG1GESA3BPWR75J8/IMG_4940.png The Artivists' Room Artist Jabari Mickles of Born by Pressure, a clothing brand that aims to redefine and creatively shift the way we think about culture as it relates to fashion. Jabari found his sense of fashion while in college, which is where he was influenced heavily by southern culture and aesthetic. He sees Born by Pressure being placed in the streetwear legacy even though he doesn’t create that type of aesthetic, he’s excited to experiment more with clothing that’s made to last and he wants to design things that working folks can utilize; to create things that are quality for the spaces we need to be in for survival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/36228828-0ed0-4c6c-9358-1271a0cc3d05/3.JPG The Artivists' Room Land based-indigenous arts educator; actor, filmmaker, performing artist & moose hide tanner, Melaw Nakehk'o. Born in and raised in Denendeh also known as the Northwest Territories, Canada, Melaw comes from a long line of tribal leaders of the Dehcho Dene & Denesuline people. Her work in reviving and teaching moosehide tanning techniques has sparked a resurgence of the practice and shaped a broader community building movement within Canada. Her work centers on the preservation of culture through the teaching of traditional moose hide tanning techniques. Melaw shares these techniques with native communities who have lost their ancestral connections to knowledge because of colonization and forced assimilation to Western society. She sought out the assistance of elders over the course of several years, and in her studies she realized just how many of her people wanted to learn this practice. Melaw is continuously working creatively through performance art, contemporary visual art, public art, filmmaking, graphic recording and teaching land based Indigenous art practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1637169318997-SSEMDJBQRCLOU7KI3R21/MINI_%2BTamara%2BHijazi%2BPortfolio%2B%25281%2529.jpg The Artivists' Room Chicago based Palestinian artist and singer, Mary Hazboun. Her work is specifically crafted for women and people of color, the drawings she creates highlight the multilayered traumas that women of color carry, due to the intersecting systems of oppression we experience. She describes her work as an act of decolonizing the bodies of women and people of color, and calls it a creative form of resistance against oppression through transgressing boundaries, making the trauma visible, and linking it with collective and ancestral traumas. Creating her work was initially something she used to help her process this trauma, and it wasn’t until folks in her community began reaching out to her to commission pieces, and telling her that they felt connected to her work, that she then began to put it out into the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/3523a4dd-e53d-41b9-b901-08859030c07e/159384463_10159054170834834_6286843849531276182_n+%281%29.png The Artivists' Room The Ujima Company, a multi-ethnic and multicultural professional theatre whose primary purpose is the preservation, perpetuation and performance of African American theatre. Founded in 1978 by the recently departed ancestor Lorna C. Hill, the Ujima Company has served for the last 43 years, with the purpose of creating beauty and justice through the theatre that is grounded in the african principle of Ujima; Swahili for “collective work and responsibility.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1637168556476-9EEON2BFGJU8J3ZHR2EV/KxngMoosa.jpg The Artivists' Room Chicago based Poet, Emcee, & Visual Artist, Kxng Moosa. Kxng Moosa grew up in Rockford, Il; an hour outside of Chicago. In 2007 at the young age of 14, he was arrested and charged, as an adult, for 1st degree murder; a charge that came with a 25 year sentence. While incarcerated, Moosa started to understand exactly what happened with his case, and how he was able to be sentenced in this way as a minor. It was during this time when he began to turn to different forms of art to express not only what he was understanding about the legal system but what he was beginning to understand about himself, his voice, and the type of artist he wanted to be. With the help of community organizers here in FL and in Illinois, Jess (his partner and advocate) and many others were able to help Moosa get clemency for his case and he was finally released in 2020 after serving 13 years of his life in prison. Now with the air of freedom in his lungs, Moosa is determined to tell his story using his mic and pen pad as his sounding board. His EP 13 summers is out now (check out the link below), which he’ll be using to spark conversations about youth incarceration, enact policy changes, and bring the narrative of what prisons really are into the classrooms and our greater ideology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1637168608786-EBKHC1YT8TM4N0U0K47F/lizzie_-98.jpg The Artivists' Room Artist and cultural worker, Mama Lucha. Mama, whose name comes from a nickname their dad gave them when she was a child, lucha means to fight; they creates their digital designs and illustrations through a queer, abolitionist lens. Growing up they were introduced to their art practice by their father, who taught them how to freehand draw. The digital illustrations Mama creates are informative, culturally resonant and utilized largely by grassroots organizations and campaigns for justice and liberation for queer, working-class, latinx, Black and Brown communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1637168403188-8F0J2E0LD4PRBUCHZBTJ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-11-17%2Bat%2B10.51.39%2BAM.jpg The Artivists' Room Artist, Educator and Children’s Literature Author, Marjuan Canady. A native of DC, Marjuan’s work spans across multiple disciplines including acting and directing for theatre/film. She is the founder of The Canady Foundation for the Arts, which is a volunteer-based STEAM focused non-profit whose mission is to educate, empower and implement innovative arts and media programs for youth of color. She’s also the co-creator of Callaloo Kids an independent children’s media brand that promotes cultural literacy, African Diaspora culture and social awareness education for children aged 3-7. Since the pandemic began, Marjuan has been engaging with youth and their families, by providing online read alouds of her Callaloo books series, as well sharing lesson plans and tools with Parents and early educators. She talked with us about her newly released documentary short, Girls, Girls, Girls, which started as a one woman play--it explores the representation of black and brown girls in the media, through satirical storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633973027630-LWH12URZM7TD1NX7QOLG/spotifypod The Artivists' Room - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633973471279-1OUFXHB1R2N1XYOISXOP/pngfind.com-soundcloud-icon-png-232482.png The Artivists' Room - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633972709256-0AV6PKS0HAPB5L2Q5OMU/applepod The Artivists' Room - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/freedom-films-series daily 0.75 2025-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633998299239-XAIX6FMXMDOQ94YPCPGS/Bahrain+poster Freedom Films Series - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633985753728-UWEMQ4261UWAT13FQNZA/FF+4.png Freedom Films Series - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633985663588-V7KAWDVC2DD9F8ZY2W3W/Freedom+Film+3+1_2+minutes+%281%29.png Freedom Films Series - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633998093292-LZFVH10VNPIZARNOLMAG/Rtgw+Instagram.png Freedom Films Series - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/witness-bahrain daily 0.75 2021-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634057413405-MZFX28JKA25BVNJKN617/Bahrain+poster+-+new+laurel.jpg Witness Bahrain - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/yo-te-esperaba-an-abolition-story daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/5392b2af-8e76-44aa-95e1-5d442b7cacde/IMG_0330.jpg Yo Te Esperaba: An Abolition Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/7109d3f3-6e6d-49fd-944e-43808b12e798/IMG_0315+2.jpg Yo Te Esperaba: An Abolition Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/remembering-the-gaza-war daily 0.75 2021-11-05 https://www.donkeysaddle.org/darfur-diaries daily 0.75 2021-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634009243891-A3HPP1TJ09WJ0KHGV4LR/3+boys+with+notebooks+under+tree+in+iridimi.jpg Darfur Diaries - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634009296703-PBV4KZ24PADYYH01QU61/kindergarten+students+iridimi.jpg Darfur Diaries - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634010049105-OZWWN5NG9BZOB3N2UQZJ/darfur%2Bposter%2Bhires%2Bcopy%2B%25281%2529.jpg Darfur Diaries - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634009754041-5HBW6FWKNJWK3I7CUJUK/outdoor+students+standing%2C+iridimi.jpg Darfur Diaries - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/one-family-in-gaza daily 0.75 2021-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634149995401-P16OZOMYC1ZAM3ULGQMM/onefamilyingaza One Family In Gaza - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1635789115885-IC6Y6TOQBQHSTZ8N9KOD/eid One Family In Gaza - Make it stand out Celebrating Eid in Gaza amidst the rubble of war By Jen Marlowe +972mag, July 20, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1635905011467-ZZQULH515S9Z6K62VUBP/Screen+Shot+2021-11-02+at+9.03.08+PM.png One Family In Gaza - Make it stand out One Family, Two Doors, Nowhere to Run By Jen Marlowe Tomdispatch.com, December 7, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1635903497540-YUJGI6HU4A8JHM0YCE3N/Screen+Shot+2021-11-02+at+8.38.01+PM.png One Family In Gaza - Make it stand out Gaza’s Mental-Health Crisis and the Trauma of Permanent War By Jen Marlowe The Nation, July 2, 2015 https://www.donkeysaddle.org/gcn daily 0.75 2026-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1630689843965-UH3JMTRB27CRZL9P49M1/Abdallah%2Bgetting%2Btreatment.jpg GCN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/0f0149e5-7962-4d6f-830a-899723d51811/Moh+and+Fadi+15+bday.jpeg GCN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/4b5fbe6f-e0f0-4be9-bb94-030a42947d0e/2018+abdallah+and+Jen.JPG GCN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/c05ef5fd-63eb-4944-92b5-a28036aed1d5/kindergarten+construction+2.jpg GCN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/c6d0ded9-2213-4b0b-956d-554b7320da5e/building+towers.png GCN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/9502ac24-04cb-4901-8c5d-b511ab9cb937/painting+the+mural.jpg GCN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1630689805522-QEECC30XKMP18T6NV1WE/RightToPlay1.jpg GCN - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/justice-beats daily 0.75 2025-09-24 https://www.donkeysaddle.org/there-is-a-field daily 0.75 2024-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634246183282-8ZUM0SMHIHP1MU7TKNPZ/TIAF+Drew+poster.jpg There Is A Field - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1633487406214-7CWU3MT6SPXZBNZ1EUAD/TIAF+Zim7.jpg There Is A Field - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634246370725-Y5B5RPNLAYQ07X049CZX/Broward+residency+liberation+tableau.jpg There Is A Field - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634246428804-HDZ94Y36XUFS7YVNO1PP/Gville+full+crew.jpg There Is A Field - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/i-am-troy-davis daily 0.75 2021-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634248371520-DAG1CM9BDIXLMT825S02/Troy+Christmas.JPG I Am Troy Davis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634248315426-KVOTZG0CWXN0VI7K5R6F/Troy+school+photo.JPG I Am Troy Davis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634248038882-OIBQUU5E46IECCHZ9T06/Troy+graduation.JPG I Am Troy Davis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1635377297242-H1F02L383DT6D9AN9GFG/Screen+Shot+2021-10-14+at+6.09.59+PM.png I Am Troy Davis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/9c31c9b3-1c73-466c-aad5-03666c358db5/Troy+and+fam+and+friends.JPG I Am Troy Davis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634253184402-MX6DW2S1JDAOKO7GO0PR/jenoped I Am Troy Davis Standing With Troy Davis In His Final Days By Jen Marlowe yes!, September 21, 2012 The state of Georgia executed a man whose guilt was widely contested. No physical evidence linked Troy to the murder, and seven out of nine key witnesses had recanted their testimonies asserting that they had been pressured by the police into saying that Troy was the shooter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/ba48c7de-72a0-469c-a4b5-4151246dfa5f/DJ+Kiersten+sept21.jpg I Am Troy Davis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1632861867041-LR1L8766O9B3KVNHAHSJ/dsp+projects.png I Am Troy Davis Troy wanted nothing so much as good educational opportunities for his nephew and nieces. Please consider supporting their education by writing a check to: I AM TROY DAVIS FUND c/o Kimberly Davis 169 Parkview Rd Savannah GA 31419 For more information about how to support the Davis family, please email Kim Davis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/8d04d614-50e4-4628-ba3f-b133221f20f1/I+am+Troy+Dejaun.JPG I Am Troy Davis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/47eb3058-193c-4705-bb32-caffde2d4dd5/DJ+and+Troy+mucle+man.jpg I Am Troy Davis - Make it stand out After My Uncle’s Execution, I Took a Break. Racism Didn’t. By De’Jaun Davis-Correia Colorlines, July 1, 2020 After his uncle’s execution, the world kept turning and De’Juan found himself needing to take a step back from activism. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/the-vignettes-collective daily 0.75 2021-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1631739630181-LY437C4Q9Y68811PYAB9/DSCF9182.JPG The Vignettes Collective - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/5c884b93-6320-4fe2-8040-70ee11e84559/Scrolling1.jpg The Vignettes Collective - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/fadi daily 0.75 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1635787387235-MX4PE3JZFPOFB74I0DHZ/Fadi+and+his+crazy+BOYZ.jpeg Fadi Fadi is the Director of DSP's Grassroots Community Network. Fadi is also the affiliate visiting scholar at Georgetown University in the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and the School of Foreign Service (SFS), currently based in Washington DC; the executive director of the General Union of Cultural Centers—the only cultural union in Palestine; and the Just Vision outreach associate in Gaza. In addition, Fadi has worked as an interpreter, producer, and fixer for numerous international institutions and news agencies including Washington Post, De Standaard, Corriere Della Sera, Rai radio and TV, The National. He has written for the New York Times and TIME magazine, among other outlets. Fadi has a BA in English Language from Al Aqsa University. He lived his entire life in Gaza, until November 2023 when he and his family evacuated, due to what human rights organizations including Amnesty International have termed a genocide. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/ryan daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/b7708fa5-fe8e-4e53-be3d-b5e65e545961/RibbonShirtHeadshot.jpg Ryan Opalanietet is an actor and singer, and Founder and Artistic Director of Eagle Project. Upon graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, as an actor, Opalanietet has performed in various readings and full productions at such renowned theatrical institutions as the Public Theater, LaMaMa E.T.C., and New York City Opera at Lincoln Center. As a director, Opalanietet has directed readings and workshops at The Lark Play Development Center, New Dramatists, and Playwrights Horizons. He has directed the full production, "Uncle Abram - A Reconstructed Uncle Vanya" in the spring of 2017. As a writer, Opalanietet's poetry and plays have been read and performed at museums in Brooklyn, NY and Newark, NJ, as well as the United Nations and at ASHTAR Theater in Palestine. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/fox daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/7db93b1d-aaff-4330-b97e-d8bc7c03ff19/IMG_1054.jpg Ryan (Copy) Fox is probably the most adorable executive director any org could hope for. When not making cameo appearances at our core team calls (reducing a group of grown-ass women to cooing, clucking, singing fools) Fox can be found bouncing along to Elmo, chewing everything in sight EXCEPT his teething toys, finding every piece of food that has dropped on the floor, and generally spreading love and light to the world, and especially his parents, Twan and Cherrell. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/rebuilding-hope daily 0.75 2021-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1634223113273-FQZ7B51QLV443FKFS2TI/Screen+Shot+2021-10-14+at+9.51.11+AM.png Rebuilding Hope - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/ali daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/3708a967-34be-4a62-815c-bde1d26c5fc9/Ali+Andre+Ali.jpg Ali Ali is Palestinian/Irish-American actor and musician based in New York City. He grew up in Massachusetts in a household that was religiously and culturally mixed. He received his BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch, studying in the Experimental Theatre Wing as well as Stonestreet Studios for Film Acting. He is excited by the intersection of art and activism and is thrilled to be on the advisory board of Donkeysaddle Projects. As an actor he has worked with numerous theater companies in New York, often helping to devise new material. Some of his recent credits include One Night (Target Margin Theater), a 9-hour theatrical exploration of storytelling based on The One Thousand and One Nights, American Dreams (Working Theater/Virtual National Tour) which was nominated for a 2021 Drama League Award, Eh Dah? Questions for My Father (Next Door @ NYTW), and 10,000 Balconies (TheaterSquared). As a musician he writes and performs with his music group fajjr+ali. They have performed across the U.S. as well as in Canada and have recorded and produced music in LA and New York. Their debut EP eleven90 was released in 2019 and their latest body of work Insecurities will be available in July of 2022 on all streaming platforms. More info on him and his music can be found at www.aliandreali.com and www.fajjrplusali.com. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/delia daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/60c957f5-6fbb-4aa0-bbe3-c9a94d87a60b/Delia+Perez+Meyer.jpg Delia Perez Meyer Delia was born in Fort Worth and has lived in Austin, Texas most of her life. She has a background in Bilingual Education, Cultural Arts, International Business, and Human Rights activism. Delia earned a Master’s in Business Administration & International Business, a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish & International Business, an Associate’s Degree in Business Management, and is currently a candidate for her PhD. Delia has worked for many state and federal agencies, a teaching assistant at Austin Community College, an adjunct professor at Saint Edward’s University, various non-profit agencies, and is retired from teaching Bilingual Education in Elgin, Texas. She is one of 5 children and comes from a large musical family – her father is Ernest R. Perez, is one of the Tejano Music Legends and a recipient of the Tejano Roots Hall of Fame Award in Alice, Texas. She, along with her cousins and other family members have been honored by the City of Austin’s ‘A Tribute to La Música Chicana’. Other family members who are also music legends include Alfonso Ramos (RIP), Ruben R. Perez (RIP), Ruben Ramos who is a Grammy Award winner, and many more. Delia has a long history of involvement in the arts community in Austin and in San Antonio. She was a member of the Board of Directors for the ESB Mexican American Cultural Arts Center, working closely with other community artists and city officials, a volunteer with La Pena, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, performed in the annual La Pastorela while teaching cultural arts to over 600 children for the Willow Street Neighborhood Cultural Music Project during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Delia is also a vocalist who has performed music with her father, at church and college choirs, and most recently with the Bronze Band for the COA’s tribute to the historic Oakwood Cemetery. She is looking forward to participating in this very important work of documenting the historical Latino, Mexican, and Chicano Music in Texas. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/jenae daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/0d08ecc6-6c97-4c90-a92b-193038c3d0b0/Je+Nae%CC%80.png JeNaè Je Naè , a Cultural Organizer at Highlander Research and Education Center, is a Black Dyke with a Black dog living and learning in The South. A native of Washington D.C. who loves playing Scrabble, writing Haikus and having porch sits with her neighbors. Her favorite roles are partner and Auntie. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/krystal daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/d3a2ec3b-bf7f-459d-8979-3738eda7ea0e/Krystal+Two+Bulls.jpeg Krystal Krystal, Director of the LANDBACK Campaign, is Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne. She has extensive experience as an organizer and on the frontlines with campaign development and management on local, national and transnational campaigns for social, racial and environmental justice. Krystal’s identity as a Native American veteran is central to her organizing and storytelling. At the heart of Krystal’s work are the connections between collective wellness, environmental justice, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, and anti-militarism. In healing from her experience as a soldier, Krystal has dedicated herself to embodying what she views as the essential quality of a warrior: a commitment to the well-being of not only her People and their relationship to the land, but that of all Peoples. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/luaya daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/e98ddc5e-cff0-46f4-b6fe-f8178e2b99b3/Lu+Aya.jpg Lu Lu (he/they/we) is a Co-founder of www.thepeacepoets.com, a Hip Hop and Spoken Word crew from The Bronx that has made an indelible mark on the social movements of our times by composing and leading songs sung around the world for justice and liberation. The Peace Poets are so humbled and honored to support the strategic art of collective singing in protest and direct action. Lu is a father, son, brother, cousin, nephew, poet, student, educator, emcee, musician, facilitator, freedom singer, friend and cultural worker. He sees all of these roles as sacred spaces to listen, love and learn more and more, day by day, how to embody healing. He believes that the foundation of working for liberation is always here and now with all our relations. In this spirit, he has woven together the fertile fields of organizing, human rights, music and public health by designing programs and facilitating community building workshops for peace and justice with his own family and with so many amazing relatives in The Bronx, Ecuador, Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, France, Sudan, Kenya, Niger, Liberia, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Afghanistan, India, Nepal and across Turtle Island. Having spent years as an artist and organizer, he now focuses on infusing music and spoken word into our movements by offering training on how to compose and lead poignant poetic accessible songs. We are also a trainer with The Wildfire Project and a community member of Canticle Farm in Oakland. Finally, we continue to work online at the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center where we has been teaching and learning poetry since 2008 with the teenagers in our neighborhood. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/st-james daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/d4daf5ab-effa-4084-855c-d44b79a98fa9/St+James+Valsin.jpeg St James St James Valsin is an artist and community advocate. Born to Haitian immigrant parents and raised in Miami, Florida, James has worked with organizations like Green Peace, Dream Defenders, and Black Lives Matter to bring about a more just society. Today James teaches guitar and poetry in public schools throughout Miami-Dade. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/ron daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/e5ad6e90-a5b3-450a-8132-ea84f9afa060/Ron+Davis.jpg Ron Ron became a steadfast activist working to prevent "Stand Your Ground" laws to justify unprovoked killings after his son Jordan Davis' tragic death. In 2013, he established (and is president of) The Jordan Davis Foundation, a non-profit organization aiming to provide financial assistance for children for exposure to cultural initiatives through travel and education. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/ram daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/add0b355-7dea-46f9-bee1-f5c09e032df8/Ram+Allah.jpg Ram Ram e/em/ey (formerly known as Zachariah) is a 37-year-old dog dad living in Occupied Huichin (formerly known as the Bay Area). This point of consciousness was raised in the colonial “Little Palestine” of Lenapehoking (aka northern New Jersey) and in Muscogee lands and streams (aka the Heart of Dixie, or Birmingham, Alabama). The pursuit of happiness took him out to the West Coast as a young adult in his late teens and twenties, and to Mana-hatta (Lenape lands, aka New York, New York) in his thirties. Ram was birthed in the continental upper northeast African region, in his ancestral homeland of Syria-Palestine, and is from the beautiful village of Aboud, along the hill country of Samaria and Judea on the West Bank of the Jordan River, most recently occupied by the ideas of the State of Israel over the last century. His family fled the violence of occupation when he was 2 to immigrate to Turtle Island (aka the United States) through colonial permission(s). For over 10 years, he served as an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement USA Bay Area and New York Branches. He's served in various capacities and roles in the movement for social justice. Currently, his life’s work is to ideate for movements and serve communities with liberatory evaluation, facilitation, organizing, data, analysis, information and strategic planning for systemic global change. He holds a BA in International Relations from San Francisco State University, an MA in International Relations and an MS in Measurement and Evaluation from American University, Washington DC. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/rafa daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/6bb63b03-0fce-4818-b2d2-78ce8eebaefa/rafa.jpg Rafa Rafa is a gender non-conforming queer xicanx self-taught multidisciplinary artist raised in northeast los angeles with deep new mexican/indigenous mexican roots. Their work explores the cosmology of my ancestors and attempts to bring forward the messages they carry for us today. They are a transformative arts educator working with northern new mexico youth in the disciplines of visual art, puppetry, stiltwalking, poetry and devised physical theatre for the past 19 years. The beauty and complexity of parenthood is their greatest creative endeavor. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/nadya daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/b4300fa1-997a-46ed-867c-5f5a3f3d51ce/Nadya+Tannous.jpg Nadya Nadya is a passionate community organizer and writer, born and raised in the Bay Area (Ohlone Territory), with a focus on political education, movement relationship building, and returning land to the people and people returning to the land. She’s a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement and works as a LANDBACK organizer with the NDN collective. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/severed daily 0.75 2025-05-22 https://www.donkeysaddle.org/sashank daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/4ed0d3da-f1db-4f2d-8162-43cc460632c0/Sashank.jpg Sashank Sashank (he/him) is an Indian-American filmmaker and producer based in Seattle. Sashank is passionate about the importance of art in society, especially as a tool of organizing and political education. When not working on films, you can find Sashank on the pickleball courts, on a scenic hike, or in a movie theater. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/kathleen daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/9f0f056d-e5b6-4f16-9ad5-25e4c49118c1/Kathleen.jpg Kathleen Kat is an unintentionally nomadic multigenre storyteller, culture worker, and organizer. Movement organizing entered her world as a preteen with #SaveDarfur; it continued to influence her both academically and in the streets, as she attended college in Chicago and later worked as an international educator. She has studied, worked, and lived in Africa, the Middle East, and South America, connecting with communities, coalitions, and creative communities seeking liberation. She utilizes storytelling as a vehicle to amplify the powerful work and human experiences she’s been granted access to. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Viator, Lonely Planet, Zora Magazine, and more. She works as a communications strategist and contractor, supporting grassroots organizations, nonprofits, and NGOs in amplifying their impact through the development of content and communications materials. She is also the founder of an organization called The Cultural Blueprint, utilizing travel and experiential learning to foster coalition-building. She is broadly focused on engaging creative and artistic communities of Africa and the global Black diaspora in the service of social justice and economic empowerment issues. She currently serves as a Program Outreach Coordinator for Donkeysaddle Projects. https://www.donkeysaddle.org/sara daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604bd36b6f3ca369c5c98890/1917a982-833b-4db0-8593-1f40766e5d12/Sara.jpg Sara Sara is a passionate educator and curriculum designer who recently completed her Master’s in Educational Policy and Leadership at the University of Washington. She specializes in creating inclusive, culturally responsive, and equity-focused learning experiences that connect students with real-world social justice issues. Sara is thrilled to be working as a Program Assistant at Donkeysaddle Projects and also serves as a Child Food Security Specialist at United Way of King County. When she’s not supporting community programs and abolition-based education, Sara loves spending time in the mountains, diving into a good book, and planning elaborate themed dinner parties.