This is a picture of Chiara looking into the camera. They are wearing a brown knit sleeveless shirt and transparent greenish glasses. They have jaw-length dark brown hair with bangs, light olive skin, a gray eye, and a whitish semi-closed blind eye. Chiara is sitting with olive trees in the background.
Originally from Italy, and currently residing in Chicago, Chiara is a queer artist, writer, organizer, acupuncturist, immigrant, and former teen mother living with multiple disabilities. They are committed to building collaborative spaces for community care and centering collective health in and out of movements for justice.
Chiara has worked for two decades in the fields of gender violence prevention, healing justice, and politicized art. They also have worked as a researcher and public intellectual, lecturing on topics like disability justice, accessible healthcare, and using art as a cultural tool for structural change.
They are a first-gen college graduate, having earned a Master of Acupuncture at the Pacific College of Health and Science, an MA in Italian Studies from NYU in 2015, and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012, where she was a Soros New American Fellow.
They are currently part of the Creative Wildfire artist cohort with the support of the New Economy Coalition, Movement Generation, and the Climate Justice Alliance.
