Artist, organizer, educator, author and public speaker, Patrisse Cullors is a Los Angeles native and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, founder and chair of Dignity and Power Now and Reform L.A. Jails, and faculty director of the Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA Program at Prescott College. Patrisse directs and produces theater, performance pieces and docu-series, and describes art as “an economic and spiritual engine that if used properly can and does transform the world.” Her Stanton inquiry draw on her experiences to explore what impact artists could have on social justice, prison abolition, community organizing and healing.
