Angélica De Jesús is a MI(unceeded anishinaabewaki)-based artist, researcher, and educator with roots in the Southern US & Borinkén. She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University and recently earned an MPP from University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy as a Rackham Merit Fellow. Angelica has been doing community-rooted research for 5+ years and positions her work around health justice, decolonial studies, and participatory/place-based methodologies. She is currently working with Palabras PR, a radical literacy and grassroots hurricane recovery project in Puerto Rico, and will begin teaching at Grand Valley State University in the Fall.
Angelica’s art and research is inspired by geographies of Black/Indigenous resistance and resilience, connections to land/ancestors/ future generations, and a deep desire for liberation. She believes art + science go better together and in the transformative power of listening. Find her on twitter as @prima_de_afuera or connected via email at dejesusa@umich.edu.