Archives: Teachers/Speakers

Sergio Troncoso is the author of Nobody’s Pilgrims, an adventure story about three teenagers, Turi, Molly, and Arnulfo, on the run from evil and unwittingly carrying even a greater menace in their stolen truck.

Brontez Purnell is a writer, musician, dancer, filmmaker, and performance artist. He is the author of a graphic novel, a novella, a children’s book, and the novels Since I Laid

Sini Anderson is an award-winning film director, producer, video art maker, and feminist art activist. Her films , The Punk Singer, a documentary about Kathleen Hanna &  Catherine Opie b.

Nicole J. Georges is an award-winning graphic novelist, podcaster & professor from Portland, OR. She is the author of the graphic memoirs Calling Dr. Laura, and Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me

Denne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature. A 2021 Out100 Honoree, her writing has been supported by MacDowell, Tin House, VCCA, and the Kimbilio Center for African American

Matt Sedillo has been hailed as "the best political poet in America" and "the poet laureate of the struggle" by journalists and historians alike. He has appeared on CSPAN, the

Marcie Sillman is an award-winning radio journalist. For more than three decades, she covered arts for Seattle’s KUOW and NPR. She is now co-host of the arts podcast doublExposure.

Ellen Sollod is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist whose is best known for her artist books and her site specific public art installations. Her artist books combine writing, photography, drawing and printmaking. She