Artist/Designer/Professor—Chicago born Japanese/Irish blend.
Clinician–writer. A humanities-based project exploring story and identity. Honoring chosen names and lived identities. Interested in where explanation helps and where naming begins to do harm.
drmonicaross.com 🏳️🌈
Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a next-generation social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against injustices in the immigration system.
Support us:
immdef.org
Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts.
http://africasacountry.com
Open Society Foundation and 11th Hour Project funded.
I'm just finding my bearings here now! Author of Southwest Reconstruction (Noemi Press, 2025) & Brown Neon (Coffee House Press, 2022), writer/critic/educator, South/West Coast Chill & desert enthusiast.
Committed teacher, midnight believer, solo soul. Still a Slow Jam in a Hip Hop world. Here for all things Deep Space Nine, Donny Hathaway, Patrice Rushen and Futurama. And for general smart stuff, foolishness and irreverence.
Cleveland + Bay Area
Senior Editor at the Univ Press of Colorado (Utah State UP & U of Alaska Press) acquiring books in composition & rhetoric, folklore, & polar studies. Formerly at OUP (music), Palgrave (politics) & Bloomsbury (33 1/3). Based in Brooklyn. Opinions my own.
Keeping the Hoping Machine running. Writer, cinephile, vinyl collector, constant reader, true believer, whiskey drinker, Catholic, chess patzer, pinballer & punk at heart supporting Detroit, Tottenham and MSU.
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lukehackney.omg.lol
A little theatre and book shop in Michigan’s Capital City. In REO Town since 2014! Hosting 1-2 shows each week, + bookstore hours 11-5 Fri-Sat ❤️
Tickets & info:
www.therobintheatre.com
she/her
Executive Director @ Teach Access.
Wisconsinite by birth, Michigander by choice.
Enthusiastic about accessibility, cats, sweatpants, and dairy products.