Pink Flowers

Curriculum Vitae

Facilitator | Educator | Peacemaker | 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

  • Advise the DART Initiative, introducing restorative frameworks into established accountability processes

  • Support restorative and accountability processes through facilitation, training, and structured dialogue

  • Created The Joy Project, a residency exploring joy, embodiment, and collective care across queer, trans, Black, and Indigenous communities

  • 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
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

  • Facilitated accountability, negotiated agreements, and boundary-setting processes 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 development with community organizing and leadership training

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

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

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

Faculty & Teaching Engagements

  • Montclair State University – Adjunct Faculty

  • Pace University – Adjunct Faculty

  • Shakespeare in Detroit – STEAM Curriculum Design

Courses and workshops have focused on:

  • Theater of the Oppressed

  • Civic engagement through performance

  • Embodied leadership

  • Transformative justice and embodied liberation practices

  • Anti-oppression praxis

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

  • Selected essays, interviews, media features, and public reflections

  • 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

Practice Statement

Pink Flowers is a Black trans facilitator, educator, and cultural practitioner whose work integrates participatory performance, restorative practice, cooperative governance, and embodied learning. Drawing from Theater of the Oppressed, African diasporic traditions, mediation, and civic engagement, her practice explores how communities and institutions navigate conflict, power, accountability, and transformation.

Her interdisciplinary approach bridges cultural work, leadership development, organizational facilitation, and public engagement across artistic, educational, cooperative, and community settings.