PRIYA FLORENCE DADLANI (SHE/THEY) IS A CARIBBEAN CULTURAL WORKER BASED IN BROOKLYN, NY. INFORMED BY THE BELIEF THAT ART SPARKS CULTURE SHIFT & SUSTAINS REVOLUTION, PRIYA’S CHARGE IS TO UTILIZE THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWERS OF STORYTELLING, COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, POLITICAL EDUCATION, & RADICAL IMAGINATION TO COLLECTIVELY DISRUPT THE CURRENT WORLD ORDER & REBUILD ANEW.

Priya currently organizes with SPICY, a zine-making collective they founded in 2017 that works at the intersection of art, justice, and cultural archival. Through SPICY's programming, they have partnered with Writers Club NY, Secret Riso Club, the Brooklyn Art Book Fair, New Women Space, NYC Feminist Zinefest, the New Museum, and the New York Public Library. In addition, they are utilizing strategic communications to support grassroots, youth-led, gender justice organizations at Third Wave Fund, and working to end gender-based violence in Caribbean communities across NYC as part of Jahajee’s Advisory Board.

She is currently a member of the Bandung Residency’s 2024-2025 cohort stewarded by MoCADA and Asian American Arts Alliance, and together they are incubating community activations that build solidarity between Black and Asian communities in NYC.

You can find Priya on social media at @priya.florence, or subscribe to her newsletter titled Dispatches from Chrysalis through which she openly spirals through her own process of becoming, and hosts collective journaling workshops.

For inquiries, workshop requests, and other bookings, please email: pfdadlani@gmail.com.