Marinieves Alba Marinieves Alba is an activist, educator, writer, and media professional whose work spans print, radio, and documentary filmmaking. She is a co-Founder and Director of the International Hip-Hop Exchange (IHX), a non-profit arts organization which promotes and nurtures the development of socially progressive Hip-hop culture and activism, by facilitating exchange between Hip-hop artists, activists, and youth communities worldwide. In 2001, she designed the Hip Hop L.E.A.D.S. curriculum, which uses Hip-Hop culture to engage young people in social justice education and promote activism and social responsibility among Hip Hop-identified youth. Her work as a researcher and activist has informed her travels and independent research projects in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and South Africa. As a freelance journalist and radio producer, her work has appeared in ONEWORLD magazine, Urban Latino magazine, SoloElla.com, Platform.net, WBAI Pacfica's "RISE UP RADIO" and "CUBA IN FOCUS". Marinieves holds a B.A. in Anthropology and African American Studies from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) and an M.P.A. degree from New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. More Bios: Marinieves Alba | Ang 13 | Shaheen Ariefidien | Max Benitez | James Bernard | Toni Blackman | Triple Blak | Jeff Chang | Kevin Coval | Jonzi D | Mos Def | Martha Diaz | Jessica Green | James "Casper" Jankowiak | Talib Kweli | Bakari Kitwana | M1 | Boogie McClarin | Ivor Miller | Marcyliena Morgan | David Muhammad | Yunus Rafiq | Dr. Raquel Z. Rivera | Livio Sansone | Clyde Valentine | Cristina Verán | Zephyr