Monica Rosas

Monica Rosas is an educator/agitator/artist whose work aims to challenge and provoke discussion on gender, the environment and the visible minority experience. A second-generation Colombian-Peruvian Canadian, she grew up in Ontario's one and only city of steel, Hamilton. She has since lived and worked in Colombia, Cuba, Peru and Venezuela, teaching English and Drama as well as producing/writing documentaries. Currently, she is an English and Social Science high school educator who works with at-risk youth in Toronto. Monica is the author of poetry collection, Inside Out (Lyrical Myrical), and her poetry is forthcoming in the TOK Anthology by Diaspora Dialogues. Monica is also the organizer of Cha Cha, a women's reading series in Toronto.