Samantha Galarza is a bilingual afro-indigenous Puerto Rican SAG-AFTRA screen actress, writer, performance artist, educator, director, and podcaster. As an art-ivist, someone who creates art through an activist lens, her performances explore: queer identity, gender, generational trauma, systemic and internalized "isms," substance abuse, immigration/migration, and the U.S. prison industrial complex. She has written/performed original works throughout the country and internationally, in Mexico, Brazil, and Canada and her work was published in the Lambda Literary Award winning "Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy." Ultimately a storyteller, her dream is to bridge the gap between mainstream media and progressive "de-colonial" political art. 

Samantha graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University with a double major in Latino & Caribbean Studies, Women & Gender Studies and minor in Sociology. She is alum of the Intercultural Leadership Institute, NALAC Leadership Institute,  EmergeNYC program and a fellow of La Pocha Nostra, Take a Breath, Needing It, and EmergeLab residencies. She also co-founded and co-hosed the podcast Latinas en Queerantine, co-founded the queer NY based performance art collective A Beautiful Desperation, and is an Alternate Roots member. Samantha is currently pursuing her MA in Arts Administration at Baruch College. 

*Resume/CV can be submitted upon request. 

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