Ms. Leilani Clark, Director of Communications, Publicity & Marketing

Email: dircom@sdchq.org

Leilani Clark is an Afro-Indigenous (Santa Clara Pueblo/Diné-Navajo) filmmaker, poet, cultural consultant and community organizer. Born and raised in Tucson, AZ, during her youth she became involved in human and immigrant rights organizing in the borderlands and the fight for cultural education in Arizona public schools. Since 2013, Leilani has developed her art of poetry, storytelling and spoken word to inspire liberatory practices of racial, gender and environmental justice. Leilani has been a featured artist, keynote speaker, and presenter for numerous community and academic events throughout the Southwest, Midwest and West Coast. She currently resides between Raleigh, North Carolina and New York City and is co-founder of independent production company, Elevate Media Films, where she produces documentary films, digital advertisements and visual shorts on human rights, equity, arts & culture with her independent media news outlet, Elevate Media News. During her time in North Carolina she serves as the Director of Communications with the Stagville Descendants Council and is one of the instructors of youth filmmaking courses with the West End Youth Production Network, a partnership between the J.O.Y. Foundation, Inc. of Durham’s historic West End Neighborhood, and Elevate Media Films.