Aya de Leon
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American author, activist, and university lecturer
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#9283
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#2806
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Writing
#1926
World Rank
#2478
Historical Rank
#1251
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Aya de Leon's Degrees
- Masters Creative Writing Antioch University
- PhD English University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Aya de Leon Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Aya de Leon is an American novelist and activist who teaches at the University of California Berkeley. She first came to national attention as a spoken-word artist in the underground poetry scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a hip-hop theater artist. de Leon is of Puerto Rican, African-American, and West Indian heritage, and much of her work explores issues of race, gender, socio-economic class, body, nation and the climate crisis.
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