Alta Starr

Alta Starr, currently the Director of Training for Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (B.O.L.D.), is also a somatic practitioner or aliveness doula, and writer and poet. She spent twenty-five years as a grantmaker supporting organizing and social movements to build political power in underserved and marginalized U.S. communities, especially in the South. Her own political engagement began in the Black Power Movement of the 1960s, and informed her early work as a teacher, parent organizer, and radio news and music producer. She has published essays about embodiment, including the introductory chapter to the book, Making and Being, a textbook for undergraduate students in the visual arts, and is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled “Conjugating Freedom,” a collection of essays and poems examining freedom as an embodied experience.