Kristiana Rae Colón is a poet, playwright, actor, educator, producer, curator, creator of the event series #BlackSexMatters, co-founder of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, and Writer/Producer on Showtime’s hit series The Chi. Her collection of poems promised instruments was the winner of the inaugural Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize and published by Northwestern University Press and her play Tilikum is the winner of a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Play. She presently serves as the Scribe Queen alongside Maroon Queen Cherice Harrison-Nelson as a founding member of the emerging Queen Reesie Collective, harnessing the power of New Orleans' unique cultural traditions into new forms of activism, awareness, and consciousness raising activations.
