Stephanie Alvarado is a queer gender nonbinary disabled femme antidisciplinary artist, poet, archivist, photographer, facilitator and cultural organizer for 20 years. Stephanie was born and raised in the Bronx, NY by way of Guayaquil, Ecuador. They alchemize photography, feminist performance, community based photo archiving, and political education into community building and social justice practices in public spaces for people of color. Their work is rooted in spiritual community healing, social justice, and local memory. They host intergenerational photo archiving teach-ins on public park land and community gardens to reclaim public space as cultural reparations for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities.

Stephanie has held artist residencies and fellowships at Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Witness for Peace, and The Laundromat Project. They’ve had poetry readings at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, and Kelly Street Garden. They have facilitated retreats for the NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives and been an adjunct professor at Hunter College School of Social Work. They currently serve on the Board of Directors for The Literary Freedom Project. Their work was recently published in Korea Art Forum’s Shared Space, Shared Dialogues artist catalog. Stephanie received their BA from NYU in Psychology, Latino Studies and Public Policy, and her MA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University.