Alicia Raquel is a 17 year-old mixed heritage west coast boricua, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been involved in performing arts and activism since her first anti-war protest at age 4, and her first performance at age 6. These days she is combining her passions through guerilla theater, spoken word, music, dance and anti-oppression and empowerment workshops for young people. She is a graduate of California State Summer School for the Arts and Art in Action and has written and performed with Destiny Arts, Youth Speaks and independent performance projects around the Bay Area. Right now her biggest projects are working on a independently written, produced and performed piece with a group of other high school aged youth, developing her skills in dance, capoeira and singing, and trying to make it through her last year of high school.

Topics covered

• How Personal Experience Links to Global Change
• Art as a Tool of Activism
• Theater/Writing Workshops
• Anti-Opression - Homophobia, Classism, Sexism, Racism