Paloma Martinez-Cruz is an interdisciplinary writer, scholar-activist and
artist based in Columbus, Ohio. She is the author of Trust the Circle: The Resistance and Resilience of Rubén Castilla Herrera (2023), Other Bombs (2023), Food Fight! Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace (2019), Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica: From East L.A. to Anahuac (2011) and editor of A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Saul Garcia Lopez (2021). A professor of Latinx Cultural Studies in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and English at The Ohio State University, Martinez-Cruz curates and hosts Onda Latinx Ohio showcasing Latinx arts practices in the Midwest. Her performance pedagogies and artivist interventions prioritize radical safety and border knowledge. She is a performance pedagogue in Guillermo Gómez-Peña's La Pocha Nostra live art company and director of the Taco Reparations Brigade performance project.