Briana Ureña-Ravelo is a 26 year old queer first generation Afro-Dominicana based in West Michigan. She is a community organizer, intersectional feminist, freelance writer, activist, thinker, and dreamer. She is the co-founder of the Grand Rapids chapter of Black Lives Matter. Her interests include music, shows and the all-ages/punk scene, Afro-Caribbean spirituality and culture, radical and community politics, linguistics, decolonization, social justice organizing and theory, fashion and clothes, cooking, body modifications, cooking, animals and community.