Alexandria Cruz

Alexandria lives in occupied Lenape / Canarsie territory in Brooklyn, NY. She is a writer and scholarship grad from Bard College via their program at the Brooklyn Public Library. She is currently enrolled in the fifth edition of the Food & Sustainability Certificate Program at the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability. She previously worked as the Program Coordinator for University Open Air, a program dedicated to employing immigrant professors to teach free courses of their design to the public. She also completed the Dialects of Decolonization activist program through the Center for Embodied Pedagogy & Action, focusing on the decolonization of Puerto Rico. She also performed with the Kasibahagua Taino Cultural Society at powwows on the East coast. She is also a 2022 Indigenous Communities Fellow at Solve MIT.