sussy santana

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Sussy Santana: Sussy Santana is a cultural artisan, using poetry as a tool for facilitation. Much of her work explores the bi-cultural and bilingual experience through text and performance. Her work is at the intersection of arts and public health. She engages community in collective performance through her "llamados" or calls for action. She has done creative interventions at health clinics, community festivals, barbershops and corner stores in Providence and Mexico. reating artistic interventions at local health clinics. Santana is the author of Pelo Bueno y otros poemas (2010), RADIO ESL a poetry cd (2012), and the chapbook Poemas Domésticos (2018). Santana is a 2015 MacColl Johnson Fellowship recipient, the first Latina writer to win the distinction. In February, 2020 she was selected by The City of Providence and the Department of Arts, Culture & Tourism as one of five artist to participate in the Creative Community Health Worker Santana is a 2025 Global Arts in Medicine Fellow and Global Arts in Medicine Youth Mentor http://www.sussysantana.com/

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