Monica Trinidad

Chicago, IL, United States

Monica Trinidad (she/they) is a queer visual artist and creative strategist working at the intersections of art and social change. A lifelong Chicagoan, Monica has created zines, graphics, mixed media posters, illustrations, and other visual art highlighting grassroots organizing efforts in Chicago and nationally. Her creative practice invites individuals to reimagine a better and more just world centered around experimentation, interdependence, process over product, and following the leadership of directly-impacted communities. In addition to their work at Justseeds, Monica is a founding member of Brown and Proud Press and For the People Artists Collective, two Chicago-based collectives experimenting with the power of cultural organizing, storytelling, and dominant narrative disruption. Monica also co-hosted the Lit Review Podcast with Assata’s Daughter’s co-founder Page May as a supplemental political education resource geared towards organizers and activists. You can find Monica’s most notable visual artwork on the cover of Mariame Kaba's New York Times bestseller We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, available everywhere books are sold—buy local!

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