Maria Bauman-Morales is a woman, dancer, person of color, southern not-quite-belle who grew up poor, and a queer person. She’s a multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer from Jacksonville, FL. She brings the same tenets to organizing to undo racism in the arts and beyond with ACRE (Artists Co-creating Real Equity), the grassroots body she co-founded. In particular, her dance work centers on the non-linear and linear stories and bodies of queer people of color onstage.