Ashley Finley is a California native who is currently living in so-called Salt Lake City. She is aBlack woman, a birth keeper, a medicine maker, a poet, an activist, and an educator. Herpassion lies in the liberation of all colonized and oppressed people and in the facilitating of areturn to sacred, ancestral knowledge that bloomed before colonization and capitalism. You canfind her work in publications such as Torrey House Press’s “A New World Coming”, SlugMagazine, and "Contraception" Medical Journal, as well as TEDx Salt Lake City and WriteAbout Now Poetry.