About Us
All-volunteer Staff Bios:
Berkley Carnine is an Oregon raised queer organizer, writer, teacher of European descent, a lover of long bodied dogs, justice, elderly folks, and postcolonial, queer, Indigenous, migrant and anti-racist theory, history and movements. Berkley currently lives in Tempe, Az and enjoys trying to slow down time, shake things up at MTV university (ASU), harvest food, make music, write short stories, teach creative writing in the prison system, spend time up at Black Mesa and be a part of shifting the climate of hate in Az to one of love and liberation.
Liza Minno Bloom is of Slovak and Anglo descent and was raised north of Philadelphia, PA. Liza is currently pursuing a Master's degree in American Studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she is writing a thesis on the intersections of Queer Theory and Indigenous Studies, is involved in efforts to unionize graduate student employees, and shamelessly spoils her dog, Frankie. Liza misses the ocean something fierce, but is enjoying the epic Martian landscapes of the Southwest. Liza began on-land support for Black Mesa in 2008 and joined the BMIS collective shortly thereafter. The substance of Liza's hope for a decolonial future consists of collective organizing for justice, social movements grounded in love and a connection to the earth that we all share, and communities caring for each other in creative and healthful ways.
Derek Minno Bloom was born on occupied Lenni Lenape land north of Philadelphia and is of German, Polish and Italian decent. He has been a BMIS collective member since 2008. Derek lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has anti-racist, queer politics somewhere in between anarcho syndicalism and anarcho primitivism. He worked as a radical history teacher/activist for two years in Brooklyn and Harlem New York, has been involved in counter military recruiting and the anti-war /anti-globalization movement, has been working on housing justice issues as a social worker for nine years and has most recently been involved with (Un)Occupy ABQ and ABQ Copwatch. Derek enjoys long walks in what is left of wild places, reading, writing, liberation and earth theologies, and spending time with friends and family.
Hallie Boas was raised on the shores of the Long Island Sound in Connecticut and is an organizer, activist and artist of European Jewish descent. Her heart and passions are centered in reconstructive visions for building grassroots movements for social, racial and ecological justice and transforming "the american way, no way or the highway" paradigm of how people think and act. She enjoys planting seeds, practicing and teaching yoga and meditation, post apocalyptic distopian feminist science fiction, making trinkets out of metal and other found things, and spending time at Black Mesa/Big Mountain, Arizona. Hallie has worked with the Global Justice Ecology Project for over four years as the New Voices Coordinator on Climate Change and now serves on the Board of Directors. She is also part of the Progressive Communicators Network She is currently living in San Cristobal, Mexico and working on opening a printing/graphics/and info-shop community center.
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