DAYDREAMS TO LIBERATORY REALITIES
Expand Through Collaboration
My work is driven by a deep commitment to the collective – a love, respect, and alignment to the people, histories, and places often obscured by dominant narratives of power. Advocating for feminist futures and liberatory solidarities are a part of the Black feminist radical intellectual tradition that serves as my compass. My lived experiences, academic training, and membership to beloved community informs how I collaborate with educators, artists, disrupters, dreamers, visionaries, and co-conspirators.
The COMMITMENT
Transform Your Experience
Whether I am drawing from secondhand anthologies on Marxist feminist critiques of gendered labor, participating in Teach-Ins on colonial occupation, or creating logic models for institutional visioning, I am always revisiting what it means to put the relationship above the task – how we can lead with integrity and ethics and avoid performative activism. This process centers critical awareness of transnational systems of oppression, how they are organized, and the ways historically marginalized folks resist(ed) so that way can make possible radical interventions towards change.
Our Impact
Beyond Marginality is the vehicle through which radical collaboration and Black feminist blue prints give way to possibility. I love working with folks looking to develop anti-racist curricula, facilitate discussions on equity and inclusion, find new pathways to building community spaces, engage in feminist world-making together, and more!
The Process
CONNECT
Creating space to explore your vision and how we can collaborate to breathe life into those ideas
DISCOVER
Exploring the landscape of your needs and how they can be threaded with my expertise and support as your thought partner
BUILD
Build capacity with me and co-author the story you’d like to tell
TRANSFORM
Turning what may have been your daydream into an expansive and dynamic reality
The Services
Interdisciplinary Education: Theory, Praxis, and Everything in Between
My work in and outside of the classroom draws primarily from the life and legacies of transnational Black feminist luminaries, higher education thought leaders, as well as the possibilities made real by Critical Race theorists. This theoretical framework melds with my formal training and experiential knowledge as an equity-focused educator, interdisciplinary scholar, sister, daughter, friend, partner, and lifelong learner.
Speaking Engagements and Invited Lectures
My approach to invited talks, lectures, and keynotes remains grounded in my commitment to capacity building. Whether discussing identity/power/privilege, racial and gender justice, topics related to compounding oppressions, equity and equality in the realm of American education, or institutional interventions - among other social justice and liberation topics - I frame learning as an avenue for pleasure activism (brown, 2019) and an actualization of bell hook’s (1994) belief that education can be a practice of freedom.
Consulting & Workshop Facilitation
Shaped by my commitment to capacity building, my consulting work ranges from leading workshops on tangible tools and interventions for equity-driven change, developing co-curricular inclusive experiences, research and content development, social media management, program planning, to social justice-focused support for small and large groups (ie. students, faculty, staff, alumni, community organizations, and non-profit teams).
Creative curation & content creation
My passion for liberatory education and community building merges with my love of art as activism in my creative work. Inspired by the space between pen and paper, the cadence of freedom songs, the vibrancy of mixed medias, and visual art, my creative consulting work includes designing themed Zines, digital curriculum guides, professional development tools/activities, social media content development and management, physical programming tools (ie. posters, pamphlets, cultural heritage month calendars, etc.), and tailored marketing packages.
Executive strategy & project management
My passion for liberatory education and community building merges with my love of art as activism in my creative work. Inspired by the space between pen and paper, the cadence of freedom songs, the vibrancy of mixed medias, and visual art, my creative consulting work includes designing themed Zines, digital curriculum guides, professional development tools/activities, social media content development and management, physical programming tools (ie. posters, pamphlets, cultural heritage month calendars, etc.), and tailored marketing packages.
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I offer an array of consultation services where rates are dependent on size and scope of the project. In working with folks disproportionately impacted by systems of harm, I am committed to solidarity pricing options.
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You can review my work here.
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You can read my story and values here.
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Feel free to contact me here to explore the possibilities of your vision.
FAQs
See The Transformation
Kristian Contreras
YOUR Feminist ALCHEMIST
A Brooklynite at heart, I carry a love of my multi-ethnic culture and community as the foundation of my life and work. Whether I am developing co-curricular experiences, shaping learning outcomes, leveraging my training as a Black feminist scholar, or weaving together the work of luminaries, I always return to the socio-political realities tied to my identity as a cisgender woman of color. How can I do the work with intention and care? How does my lens as an Afro-Dominican-Guyanese daughter of immigrants shepherd the interventions I dream of as I make sense of the margins?
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