Pink Flowers/Curriculum Vitae

Artist | Peacemaker | Educator | Cultural Strategist

Current Position

Director of Education and Training
Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC), Ann Arbor, MI
2022–Present

  • Design and facilitate leadership development programs for cooperative housing communities

  • Develop mediation and conflict engagement frameworks (DART Initiative)

  • Lead restorative and accountability processes

  • Created The Joy Project, a residency exploring joy at the intersection of queer, trans, Black, and Indigenous identities

  • Train student leaders in governance, power analysis, and community care

Professional Experience

Founder & Artistic Director
Falconworks Theater Company
2005–2021

  • Founded award-winning theater company dedicated to civic engagement and participatory democracy

  • Conceived, wrote, directed, and performed original works including Black Conference

  • Designed community-based performances integrating Theater of the Oppressed and popular theater

  • Built cross-sector partnerships across arts, public housing, and grassroots organizing communities

  • Led community-based recovery and cultural stabilization efforts in Red Hook, Brooklyn following Hurricane Sandy (2012–2013)

  • Featured on WNYC’s The Takeaway for post-disaster economic and cooperative recovery work

Peacemaker
Red Hook Community Justice Center (NYC Court System)
2012–2018

  • Trained in Navajo-informed Peacemaking and restorative justice practices

  • Facilitated court-referred and community-based peacemaking sessions

  • Designed structured dialogue processes for harm repair and conflict transformation

  • Held space for accountability, boundary-setting, and negotiated agreements within high-conflict environments

Cooperative Business Developer
Center for Family Life – Cooperative Business Development Program
Brooklyn, NY
2015–2018

  • Supported worker-owned cooperative formation and training

  • Facilitated leadership development in immigrant and low-wage worker communities

  • Designed participatory governance structures

  • Integrated cooperative economics with community organizing frameworks

Community Crisis Leadership & Civic Engagement (Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY)
2012–2015

  • Facilitated neighborhood forums and community responses following Hurricane Sandy, contributing to expanded eviction moratoriums for NYCHA residents

  • Worked with youth, artists, and residents in Red Hook on economic empowerment and leadership

  • Produced and directed community-embedded theatre addressing local structural issues including gentrification

  • Engaged in cross-sector cultural and civic initiatives documented in The New Yorker’s profile of neighborhood arts leadership (Oct 2015).

Faculty & Teaching Engagements

  • Montclair State University – Adjunct Faculty

  • Pace University – Adjunct Faculty

  • Shakespeare in Detroit – Company Member

Courses and workshops have focused on:

  • Theater of the Oppressed

  • Civic engagement through performance

  • Embodied leadership

  • Pleasure activism

  • Anti-oppression praxis

Training & Practice Areas

  • Theater of the Oppressed (Brazilian Joker tradition)

  • Art of Hosting

  • Navajo-informed Peacemaking

  • Restorative Justice Practices

  • Cooperative Governance & Democratic Process

  • Ritual & Embodied Performance Traditions

  • African Trickster Cosmology

Selected Presentations & Conferences

  • Stretch Festival – Berlin, Germany

  • Annual Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference (PTO)

  • National cooperative leadership gatherings

  • Civic engagement and arts conferences across the United States

Publications & Media

  • Archive of essays (Rants & Essays)

  • Over 600 published video reflections and lectures

  • Interviews and features in cooperative and arts publications

  • Essay “Four Goddesses” in Queerview Mirror (Arsenal Pulp Press)

Education

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Yale School of Drama

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
University of the Arts

Artistic & Cultural Practice

Pink Flowers is a Black trans artist and pleasure activist whose work draws from shamanic traditions, African trickster cosmology, Brazilian Joker practice, and ritual performance. Her practice integrates art, governance, mediation, and embodied inquiry to examine power, shame, joy, and transformation in institutional and community settings.