Dara Kwayera Imani Bayer is an artist, spirit seeker, social justice organizer, and educator who strives to build self-determined and interconnected communities in all areas of her life. Her grassroots community based work has focused on abolitionist and environmental justice organizing. As a painter, she is interested in exploring history, contradiction, and possibility, particularly as these themes relate to Black liberation and ancestral healing. As an organizer and educator, she is passionate about integrating social transformation and spiritual consciousness, particularly in building intergenerational connections, addressing interpersonal and structural harm through transformative practices, and supporting the empowerment of young women. She has worked as a high school teacher in Boston Public Schools, a Restorative and Transformative Justice educator and facilitator, and is currently Co-Director of the Cambridge Holistic Emergency Alternative Response Team (HEART), a non-carceral community care and crisis response organization. She is based in Boston, MA.