MISSION
Our mission is to demonstrate the capacity of the Puerto Rican people by cultivating a grassroots movement towards independence and full autonomy through diversity of means centering storytelling and artistic expression.
Founded in 2024, Artists for Puerto Rico was created to connect the intersection of artistic expression and activism with the fight for Puerto Rican independence.
We serve our community through organizing means such as:
Hosting Community Healing Events
Creating & Celebrating Liberationist Art
Directing Educational Programming
Coordinated Marches and Protesting
Reading and Disseminating Information
Collaborating with Other Liberation Movements
ORGANIZERS
photograph by @davinaalexis
IMAN ABDUL
FOUNDER, ORGANIZER, CREATIVE
From youth advocacy to creative organizing Iman is a strong-willed creative insistent on creating change by mobilizing the youth. A self proclaimed humanitarian, cultural organizer, and storyteller, Iman is intent on uplifting stories of resistance in efforts to push forward the fight for liberation.
Born and raised in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican and Lebanese descent, Iman has been organizing for years on behalf of her people and her community. At 18 she co-founded the youth-led non-profit ‘Integrate NYC,’ and by 24 she launched Bebes Boricuas to uplift femme and queer artists and organizers across the diaspora. In 2024 she launched Artists for Puerto Rico, a grassroots movement of Boricua artists and activists fighting for Puerto Rican independence.
Iman is currently continuing her work to educate and mobilize youth at El Puente community center in Los Sures, Williamsburg — continuing the legacy of resistance started in New York by the revolutionary youth of the Young Lords Party.
ALYSSA MONET
ORGANIZER, DESIGNER, CREATIVE
Born and based in Los Sures, Williamsburg, Alyssa is a multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and intellectual amplifying diverse voices, educating her community to create systemic change. Radicalized by the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012, Alyssa began organizing against police brutality at 15. A muslim woman of Black, Puerto Rican, and Italian descent, Alyssa has spent the past 10 years mobilizing for Black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, and, most recently, Palestinian liberation.
At 20 Alyssa began her artivist career as a freelance designer and at 24, she launched August Mind Creative Studio to intersect her art and her activism creating work which centers stories from across the diaspora to act as conduits for change.
Alyssa spent her past few years as an educator but is now focusing her time and energy sustaining mobilization and organizing efforts in her community through grassroots movements for collective liberation.