| Julienne Kaleta (she/they) is an artist and co-founder of Libertroph Magazine, a culture-building project archiving white anti-racist organizing, past and present. Julienne makes art and shares stories that can serve as invitations into liberated futures. Julienne brings over seven years of experience as a narrative strategist at a racial and economic justice nonprofit, where they partnered with city government, data partners, artists, and local community members to tell stories about organizing to build a racially-just world.
In their art and organizing, Julienne seeks to reconnect with their cultural memory as a means of defying the white supremacy that incentivized their ancestors to give up their cultures. Julienne comes from generations of family with roots in New York by way of ancestors in Sicily, Poland, and west Ireland. Julienne's anti-racist practice is largely informed by People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) and their Undoing Racism Workshop, and Dr. Resmaa Menakem and his Somatic Abolitionism practice.
Julienne is most drawn to collaborative work, and enjoys creative partnerships with grassroots organizers and nonprofit groups to create zines, comics and illustrations that uplift racial, economic, disability and healing justice. She is inspired by nature and what it can teach us about reciprocity, organizing, and flourishing.
Julienne lives in Washington DC, where she loves long walks in Rock Creek Park, tending to her balcony garden, and getting to know her neighbors. |
