Stephanie Alvarado is a queer Afro-Indigena Latina feminista born and raised in the Bronx, NY by way of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Stephanie is a poet, multidisciplinary artist, and community organizer for 15 years. She currently facilitates the #OneBookOneBronx program with The Literary Freedom Project, is the founding Program Director at Freelancers Hub, and is on the Board of Directors for Just Food, a food and racial justice organization founded in 1995.

She is our first guest for 2019, and we discuss the power of language and community, and struggling, imagining, and creating a better future.