As a film and multi-media teaching artist, she’s worked with social justice organizations like DreamYard Project, Inc. She’s also worked with for over five years as the QTPOC Speakeasy editor and A-Camp staff. That means fewer incidents of bullying and harassment, and more students treated with respect.

She’s the Youth Programs Manager at GLSEN (pronounced “glisten”): a leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe and affirming schools for LGBTQ students. “It’s quite dazzling, funny as hell, poignant, all the things.” Witty, authentic, and humming with the full complexities of modern life and radical politics, the book was called the “dopest LGBTQA YA book ever” by Latina magazine.Īs an activist, Rivera also gives back. “I strongly encourage you to read Juliet Takes a Breath,” writes Roxane Gay. It’s a critically acclaimed coming-of-age story starring a queer puertorriqueña who leaves her native Bronx behind to intern, over one transformative summer, with one of her literary heroes: the feminist author Harlow Brisbane. Rivera is also the author of Juliet Takes a Breath, a YA novel listed by Mic as one of the 25 essential books to read for women’s history month. And while the series is “definitely going to tackle America’s ancestry and ethnicity,” Rivera tells The Washington Post, it’s also a comic book aimed at wide appeal: committed to snappy one-liners, blowing stuff up, and beating up the bad guys, naturally. She’s currently making major waves for her new Marvel series starring America Chavez: a queer, Latinx superhero who’s been written and designed, crucially, by a queer Latinx. Gabby Rivera is a young, charming speaker dedicated to empowering women and improving our marginalized communities.

The author of Juliet Takes a Breath, she’s also the writer of the new Marvel series America-featuring the first queer, Latinx teen-girl superhero, ever-that’s catching headlines from The New York Times, CNN, Vogue, and beyond. Gabby Rivera Bio Gabby Rivera is an outgoing, outspoken creator invested in fostering better dialogue, inspiring radical creativity, and improving our most vulnerable communities.

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