# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aya-de-leon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:35:22.083Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aya-de-leon"
name: "Aya de Leon"
slug: "aya-de-leon"
description: "Aya de Leon is an American novelist and activist who teaches at the University of California Berkeley. She first came to national attention as a spoken-word artist in the underground poetry scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a hip-hop theater artist. de Leon is of Puerto Rican, African-American, and West Indian heritage, and much of her work explores issues of race, gender, socio-economic class, body, nation and the climate crisis."
tagline: "American author, activist, and university lecturer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aya_de_Leon_(born_1967)_in_the_video_'Privilege_and_Children's_Lit_-_ACL_Institute_2015'.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.16
  momentum:             3.1640625
  historical:           3.775129333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://ayadeleon.wordpress.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "آيا دي ليون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "آيا دى ليون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_de_Leon"
    title: "Aya de Leon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7_%DA%88%DB%8C_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ایا ڈی لیون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4830783"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations