Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes

Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes is a  U.S.-born and raised, Queer, Feminist, second-generation Colombian immigrant, scholar-activist, writer-artist, and bruja. Trained in anti-oppression and social justice research and organizing, as well as sexual health education, and  Visual and Performing Arts, her commitments include advocacy-based research on State Violence in Colombia, as well as creative justice endeavors through photography, prose, poetry, and performance, addressing issues relevant to Queer, Black and Brown, and Sick and Disabled experience, immigration experience, histories of race and racism, historical memory and liberatory struggles and social movement. She is committed to growing spaces of community justice and healing through scholarship, radical politics, and the arts, and intersecting these efforts in the practice bearing witness and provocation for social change. Her performances have been seen at San Francisco's SomArts, the Mission Arts and Performance Project, Galería de la Raza, and other venues. Her creative prose and poetry have been exhibited in the National Queer Arts Festival, and a number of publications.