Born and raised in Queens, NYC, Daemond Arrindell is a multi-genre writer, film maker, educator, performer, and equity consultant. His work has appeared in City Arts, Specter, Crosscut, Poetry NorthWest, Seattle Review of Books and The Pitkin Review. Daemond is a Jack Straw Writer and a Jack Straw Writers Program curator, a Mineral School fellow and a VONA/Voices Writer’s Workshop fellow. He co-adapted the acclaimed novel “Welcome To Braggsville,” by T. Geronimo Johnson into a stage production for Book-It Repertory Theater. In 2019, he performed his first one-man show, “Frozen Borders,” a performative exploration in imagery, poetry and emotion on the subject of the United States’ southern border. Daemond received his MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Whether facilitating groups of high school students, adult educators or incarcerated populations, Daemond’s objectives for participants remain the same: to think critically and creatively; to honor individual voices, especially those of the disenfranchised; and to reflect on what makes us unique and celebrate it.