Rosa
Alicia Clemente is a Black Puerto Rican grassroots organizer, journalist,
and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Know Thy Self Speakers Bureau,
which has created two successful college/universities tours, Dare to Struggle,
Dare to Win and the Speak Truth to Power tours and most recently has created
the Hip Hop Skool for Social Justice. With an earned degree from the University
of Albany and a Masters of Professional Studies form Cornell University
she is committed to scholar-activism and youth organizing. Her work as
an activist has taken her across the United States and internationally
to colleges, universities, high schools and prisons. She has delivered
lectures on topics such as African-American and Latino/a Intercultural
Relations, Hip-Hop Activism, The History of the Young Lords Party, and
Organizing to Free U.S. Political Prisoners. Rosa has written for Clamor
Magazine, The Black World Today, The Final Call and has been the subject
of articles in the Village Voice, The Amsterdam News, the New York Times
and Red Eye Magazine. She has appeared on CNN, C-Span, Democracy Now,
Street Soldiers, and National Public Radio (NPR). In 2001 she was a youth
representative at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in
South Africa and in 2002 was named by Red Eye Magazine as one of the top
50 Hip Hop Activists to look out for. Currently she is a co-host/co-producer
WBAI's (99.5 FM/NYC) show Where We Live, was recently published in Third
World Press, Role Call: A Generational Anthology, is a member of the Malcolm
X Grassroots Movement and the Black August Collective, and is the coordinator
of the State of Black World Youth Caucus.
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