Cultural Organizer, Artist, Educator
Donnay, earth adoring and liberation believing, was raised by a collective of single working-class mothers who provided the care that guides her dreams of freedom. Donnay’s work centers on healing justice, popular education, just transition frameworks, cooperatives, and cultural organizing to create a more just world. She is a multidisciplinary artist, fluidly moving from dance, theater, and storytelling to somatics, yoga, and herbalism - interweaving these elements into the cultural through line of her work. Her practice explores the connection of mind, body, spirit, land, and ancestral healing. With a brother and father in and out of prison, her deep analysis of the prison industrial complex is fueled by her complex personal experience. She trusts in the power of art and organizing to help us all envision a future where all our love-centered imaginations can flourish. She is currently the Social Justice Leadership Academy Director at Kite’s Nest, a liberatory education center in Hudson, New York. Donnay has a BA from Oberlin College in Africana Studies and Comparative Studies where she was mentored by Adenike Sharpley, as well as an MFA from Pratt Institute. Her most recent interests include: cooperative economics, land based cooperative living, mutual aid, herbalism and healing.