mel c.

mel (she, her) is an educator-organizer of haitian and cuban descent who uses expressive writing as an outlet for healing and political education. she is the minister of education and co-founder of a TK-8 full-time liberation school based on Nisenan Land called Malcolm X Academy for Afrikan Education (@916mxa) and organizes political education for Community Movement Builders on a national level. she has served as a lecturer in movement building, education and pan-afrikan/ethnic studies at schools like the University of Michigan, UC-Berkeley, Cal State, Cuesta College, and University of Ghana - Legon. 

as an organizer, she aims to bring a sense of r/evolutionary love and queer-socialist-feminism alongside an approach which urgently balances materialism and idealism. her poetry is where she is best able to find that space.