Karina Ordóñez

Karina Ordóñez is an award winning multi-faceted artist, writer and cultural organizer based in New York. Karina has headlined and featured at venues across New York City, as well as having her work displayed at exhibitions and archival institutions. In the slam poetry circuit, she is a winner of the Brooklyn Poetry Slam at BRIC Brooklyn and has published work both online and in print. Ordóñez has curated workshops on intersectional global movements with organizations including Artists for Puerto Rico and The People’s Forum. She will be continuing her work as Arts and Digital Media coordinator for AM:PM gallery as well as on curational team for the non-profit Sakura Series. Karina’s work focuses on intersectional feminism, latinidad, and using history to story-tell. When Karina isn’t organizing or writing, she works at CENTRO: The Center for Puerto Rican studies, making archival collections and resources accessible to people across the diaspora through symposiums, academic panels, exhibitions and more. 

If you'd like to see some more of Karina's work, you can find her poetry in the book, "Renascentem: Crow Calls Volume XI" published by Quill and Crow Publishing House and see her on February 27th at the Vino Theater for her poetry show, "Soliloquies" with Mictastic NYC.