Gina Athena Ulysse is a feminist artist-academic-activist, or a self-described post-Zora interventionist, originally from Pétion-Ville, Haïti. Her creative works include spokenword, performance art and installation pieces. Her poetry has appeared in several journals and collections. She is the author of “Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica” and “Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle,” and is professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.