Leo D. Martinez is the Grant & Communications Assistant at Minds Matter NYC. A Minds Matter alum in the Class of 2016, she is now a 2020 graduate from Williams College with a bachelor’s in English and concentration in Latina/x Studies. During her time at Williams, she was the Treasurer and later Historian for the Williams Black Student Union and earned the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship to study queerness and Afro-Latinx literary traditions.