Iris MoralesIRIS MORALES is a lifelong activist, educator, feminist, and author. From her early days as a tenant organizer to her current work, she has organized with movements for economic and racial justice, women's rights, and the decolonization of Puerto Ric. Morales' love of community and history led her to media production as a tool for social change and to forming organizations training and empowering young people to become storytellers. In 1996, she produced and wrote the award-winning documentary ¡Palante, Siempre Palante! Nationally televised, it portrays Puerto Rican social justice movements of the late 1960s and early 70s in the United States, and it continues to be screened in classrooms and community venues across the United States and the Caribbean. A leading member of the Young Lords Party for over six years, she served as deputy minister of education and co-founded the Women's Caucus and Women's Union. Today, as the founding director of Red Sugarcane Press, Morales collaborates with writers and activists to create books and projects, amplifying BIPOC voices with a particular emphasis on the Puerto Rican experience. Notably, Morales is the editor of the anthologies Voices from Puerto Rico: Post-Hurricane María and Latinas: Struggles and Protests in 21st Century USA, featuring the writings of community activists and poets. Morales is the author of Revisiting Herstories: The Young Lords and Through the Eyes of Rebel Women and co-author of Vicki, A Summer of Change, a bilingual English-Spanish children's book. Currently, Morales serves on the advisory board of the Instituto de Formación Política of Mijente, a Latinx organization dedicated to racial, economic, gender, and climate justice. A native New Yorker, Morales holds a JD from the New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar, and an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College in New York. Read More Read Less