Aya de Leon
American author, activist, and university lecturer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1967 · age 59
Aya de Leon is an American novelist and activist who teaches at the University of California Berkeley.
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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.
