Yairamaren Maldonado, Ph.D.
Writer | Consultant | Founder
Yairamaren Maldonado is a writer, independent scholar, communications consultant, and writing mentor with expertise on BIPOC communities and community-centered storytelling practices. She works at the intersection of the non-profit and academic industries.
Writer & Independent Scholar
Director, Escritura Pública
Writing Mentor
Communications Consultant
She published the poetry collections Ciencia ficción en el mirador (2022) and Interfaces (2016) as well as many other articles and book chapters in academic, cultural, and creative journals, and has worked as the editor of several volumes. She has also worked for more than 15 years with community-based storytelling projects alongside migrants, Afro-descendant communities, homeless drug users, underrepresented youth, and women in collaboration with academic projects and non-profit organizations in the Caribbean, Latin America, and California.
Her approach to storytelling and poetry as decolonial practices is influenced by literary studies, feminist theory, digital/public humanities, mindfulness, and narrative change practices from the social justice sector.
In 2023, and thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she founded the community-based project Escritura Pública, which uses literary arts, creative writing, and wellness to uplift the stories of women of color.
