Rosa Clemente
Rosa Clemente’s keynote is scheduled for
Aug. 1 from 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Rosa Alicia Clemente is an award-winning organizer, speaker, political commentator, producer, independent journalist, scholar-activist and former vice presidential candidate. A leading voice of her generation, the Bronx-born Black-Puerto Rican is frequently sought out for her insight and commentary on Afro-Latinx identity, Black and Latinx liberation movements, police violence, colonialism in Puerto Rico, hip-hop feminism, third-party politics, and more. In 2008, Clemente made history when she became the first Afro-Latina to run for vice president of the United States on the Green Party ticket. She and her running mate, Cynthia McKinney, are the only women-of-color ticket in U.S. presidential history to date. Since then, Clemente has continued to be a powerhouse. She is the creator of Know Thy Self Productions, under which she has organized multiple national tours; PR on the Map, an independent, unapologetic, Afro-Latinx-centered media collective founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria; and the Black Diasporic Organizing Project, a nonprofit dedicated to combating anti-Blackness within the wider Latinx community. She was associate producer on the 2021 Oscar-winning biographical drama film Judas and the Black Messiah. She is currently completing her Ph.D. at the W.E.B. DuBois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.