Aya de Leon directs the Poetry for the People program in the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley. Her work has appeared in Essence Magazine, Ebony, Woman's Day, Writers Digest, Mutha Magazine, Movement Strategy Center, the Feminist Wire, My Brown Baby, The Good Men Project, Adios Barbie, KQED Pop, Bitch Magazine, and she was recently a guest on HuffPostLive. She blogs and tweets about culture, gender, and race at @AyadeLeon and ayadeleon.wordpress.com. Kensington Books will be publishing her feminist heist novel in 2016.