From Santurce, Puerto Rico, Ash is a Black, queer, dis/abled writer, independent activist-scholar, and art-based educator. Their work is shaped by lived experience and guided by community knowledge, grounded in participatory and collaborative research for collective learning and action. Ash organizes with the Dominicans Love Haitians Movement and co-founded Nou Akoma Nou Sinèrji—an annual Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival. In 2021, they received a Soros Justice Fellowship to co-develop a grassroots intervention with community leaders and youth. Ash teaches in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. They hold a master’s in Critical Ethnic and Community Studies from UMass Boston.
