2020 CSSJ Visiting Artist

Photo by Saskia Rombouts

Dara Kwayera Imani Bayer is a social justice organizer, educator, and visual artist, who is passionate about building interconnected and self-determined communities through Transformative and Restorative Justice philosophy and practices. She has worked as a humanities teacher at a visual and performing arts high school, a Restorative Justice Implementation Coach in several Boston Public Schools, and is currently the Transformative Justice Program Coordinator at Brown University. As a painter, she is interested in exploring history, contradiction, and possibility, particularly as these themes relate to Black liberation.