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Quito Ziegler is a Brooklyn-based artist, visionary organizer and professor with 25 years involvement in a variety of movements, queer/trans collectives, nonprofit boards, and other communities of humans.

They teach at SVA and are active in efforts to protect the People’s Beach, a beloved queer beach in the Rockaways threatened by displacement. Recent years have included deeper engagement with indigenous women leaders across Abya Yala—the Ecuadorian Amazon in particular—who Quito supports in their global climate advocacy & movement building work. 

Their current collective, Dandelions NYC, organizes an annual gathering parallel to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to facilitate connections between local movements here and indigenous movements globally.