Natalia M. Villarán-Quiñones (Ella/She/Her) 

Virgo, Queer, Femme Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Boricua and intersectional Ecofeminist, youth organizer, museum educator certified in Trauma Informed Teaching artist and antiracist educator, trainer and facilitator artist based in Puerto Rico.

Author of Desamor y Memorias de una Virgo: The Heartbreak and Memories of a Virgo, participated in Future Now project, Metropolarity; En Comunidad: Works by Queer and Trans Latinx Contemporary Artists exhibit and had her poetry exhibited in The Black QT artistic body at Fox Art in Philadelphia, PA. Co Curated Equinox exhibition in 2017 and QT Noir Festival of Till Arts Project in Philadelphia, PA in 2019. She was also published in the anthology Puerto Rico en mi Corazón in 2019.  Created Bilingual activities, workshops and guided Tours for The Barnes Foundation and The Attic Youth Center in Philadelphia. Panelist for PAFA’s Tacking Back space, Fair Museum Jobs- Anti-racism in museum recruitment, Barra Foundation Non Profit Leaders’ Circle and University of Puerto Rico MAGAC Panel Prácticas e imaginarios culturales en la gestión cultural. She believes in the transformative and healing power of the community and how important it is to preserve oral and written stories and traditions. As the community organizer for Queers4ClimateJustice,has opened new conversations with climate justice organizers in PR about inclusion of LGBTQ+ issues, organized a Q4CJ Youth Roundtable for Pride month in 2022, coordinated a cohort of 12 queer and trans organizers from PR to attend the 2023 Creating Change conference in San Francisco, and expanded the reach and relationships of the instagram account @queers4climatejustice. She is also a poet, published in the anthology Puerto Rico en mi Corazón in 2019, and now celebrating her first book: Desamor y Memorias de una Virgo  (The Heartbreak and Memories of a Virgo). (She/Her/Ella)