This conversation was recorded on 14th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Tamara Oyola Santiago and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York.
Tamara Oyola SantiagoCo-Director at the Institute for Transformative Mentoring (ITM). She is a public health educator and activist who specializes in harm reduction. After earning graduate degrees in Public Health and Latin American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Tamara joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a Presidential Management Fellow. Since 2009, she has been part of The New School, working with students to mobilize for social justice, equity and liberatory practices of education. Areas of life work include harm reduction services grounded in social justice in Puerto Rico and New York City, HIV/AIDS de-criminalization, self-determination and anti-colonial practices, Queer liberation and LGTBQIAGNC health. She is co-founder of Bronx Móvil, a fully bilingual (Spanish-English) mobile harm reduction and syringe services program that strives for drug user health and mobilization. Tamara is also part of the What Would an HIV Doula Do collective, a community of people joined in response to the ongoing AIDS Crisis.
Tamara Oyola Santiago Selected Reading: Roots of Community Resilience: An Interview with the Institute for Transformative Mentoring
To know more about the exhibition visit - https://veralistcenter.org/exhibitions/owed-to-a-certain-emptiness/
To know more about Conflictorium visit - https://www.conflictorium.org/
