This is a picture of Chiara looking into the camera. They are wearing a red scarf, a jean jacket, a purple hat and hoodie.. They have green and dark brown hear, light olive skin, a gray eye, and a whitish semi-closed blind eye. Chiara is standing with Lake Michigan in the background.
Originally from Italy, and currently residing in Chicago, Chiara is a disabled queer artist, writer, organizer, acupuncturist, immigrant, and former teen mother. They are committed to building collaborative spaces for community care and moving toward collective embodied liberation in and out of movements for justice.
Chiara has been deeply involved in gender violence prevention, practicing healing justice, and creating politicized art for over two decades. They have written and spoken extensively about disability justice, politicized healing, and using art as a cultural tool for structural change. They are politicized somatics practitioner in the lineage of Generative Somatics with a focus on generative conflict, childhood trauma recovery, and breaking multigenerational cycles of harm.
They are a first-gen college graduate, having earned a Master of Acupuncture at the Pacific College of Health and Science, an MA in Italian Studies from NYU in 2015, and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012, where she was a Soros New American Fellow. In 2022 they published their first book, "We Will Build a New Compass: Magic Moments of Seeding More Just Worlds."
