Activist Lilly Marcelin, executive director of the Resilient Sisterhood Project and Nayana LaFond, an artivist known for her painting series Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples Painting Project, in conversation with Caron Tabb, curator of HBI’s Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice. 

Lilly Marcelin is a community activist and organizer who has dedicated herself to a lifelong  journey around racial and social justice equity. Ms. Marcelin has worked on a broad range of  issues, from gender-based violence, human trafficking, and health and socioeconomic disparities to women’s reproductive health and rights. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Resilient Sisterhood Project (RSP) with a mission to inform and empower women and young adults of African descent about the common diseases of the reproductive system that  disproportionately affect them. Ms. Marcelin strongly prefers to work in partnership with–rather than on behalf of–black women to address deeply rooted systemic inequity and racism. 

Supported by grants from Combined Jewish Philanthropies/CJP and the Mass Cultural Council.

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