Karia White

Karia White is double majoring in International Affairs and Ethnic Studies as well as pursuing a minor in Political Science. She is an award winning poet who teaches writing and spoken word both on campus and in Denver.  She also has acted as a community artivist building arts-based healing spaces for BIPOC communities including the CU Boulder "Shades of Honey" Open-Mic Event, which she co-founded.  She was also a lead organizer of the recent Denver Black Lives Matter call to actions and uprisings. Karia is the founder of the  “Siblings in the Struggle Collective”, a radical group that reimagines, challenges and talks back to institutions and paradigms rooted in the oppression of BIPOC.  Karia is a graduate research assistant on Dr. Kalonji Nzinga’s seed grant study, The Lyripeutic Storytelling Project. This study is a design-based research (DBR) study investigating how learning environments, rooted in hip-hop based education and critical literacies, can facilitate opportunities for marginalized youth to learn (and share) wellness narratives that are endogenous to the cultural communities they traverse.