Bail Reform: ROOTS Members Shifting Culture and Policy Returning from ROOTS Week, where we built our understanding of class and power, we wanted to share the work of members who are doing work around bail reform. For those who can…
Author: Melisa Cardona
800-1000 Words Toward Decolonization
YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND. Poster series by Jessica Clark and Ashley Minner, 2018-19. By Ashley Minner Picture it: East Baltimore, 2005. It was a beautiful, late spring afternoon in Patterson Park. The sun was shining. It seemed like everyone…
2019 UpROOTing Trainings
2018 ROOTS Week UpROOTing Oppressions. Photo by Melisa Cardona Welcome to the 2019 model of Alternate ROOTS’ very own organically grown, custom-made anti-racism/anti-oppression workshop series. A team of ROOTS members has spent the last year designing this experience, building on…
ROOTS Week 2019 Artist Statement: Angela Davis Johnson
ROOTS Week 2019 artwork created by Angela Davis Johnson. As I began this work, the questions that came up for me during the creation process were: In what ways do external projections of class change how we interact with one…
Melisa Cardona
MELISA CARDONA Communications Specialist melisa@alternateroots.org Melisa is a first generation queer Latinx self-taught artivist who grew up between Atlanta, GA and her parents native land of Colombia. They cut their teeth in the theater scene in Atlanta and dabbled in…