Brontë is guided by “the many rivers that have come together” to make and sustain her. As a black-latinx multimedia artist, educator, and designer, her praxis (theory + action) lives at the intersections of black liberation ecology and creative placemaking. Her work intends to deconstruct the violences forged by environmental racism through radical imagination. This commitment iterates through several mediums and this year will take form through Lead to Life: A People’s Alchemy for Regeneration listed below. In her last year at Brandeis University, Brontë worked as a copy editor on a retrospective of Mexican artist Pedro Reyes’ work. When she witnessed his projects Disarm and Palas por Pistolas – in which he transforms weapons into shovels and instruments – she was struck with a vision to continue this project in the United States as a direct response to losing a dear friend to gun violence alongside the larger traumatic impact on black communities and environments from police brutality. She is committed to joy, wellness and walking in the prayer that “justice is what love looks like in public.”