About the Author:

Clarivel Ruiz
Clarivel Ruiz(we, us, you) child of the African and Indigenous Diaspora, parents from Ayiti Kiskeya (aka Hispaniola, aka the Dominican Republic and Haiti), raised in NYC on the ancestral bones and covered shrines of the Lenape people. In 2018 we initiated Dominicans Love Haitians Movement, Inc., an arts nonprofit agency to heal from colonialism’s traumas. Our goal is to restore the rights OF ALL PEOPLE, HAITIAN AND DOMINICAN, to live in an inclusive environment free from harmful negative narratives, perceptions, and propaganda that negate our commonalities and humanity through antiblackness, anti-Haitianism, and xenophobia. Our purpose is to give rise to ways to counteract these divisive ways of thinking and being.

Simultaneously, as an Artist, Educator, and Coach with over fifteen years of experience creating media programs as a former director at a DCTV, nonprofit agency, supporting students as a facilitator at Boricua College, and guiding people to live a life they love through participatory engagements.

We are alumni of Hemispheric Institute’s EmergeNYC, Culture Push’s Utopian Fellow, a Civic Practice Seminar participant at the Metropolitan Museum, The Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship at CCCADI, a 2019 Brooklyn Arts Council award recipient, and an MFA graduate of CUNY, City College.

Stateless is a co-production of Latino Public Broadcasting and a co-presentation with Black Public Media.