Being, FKA Kriss Mincey
What’s freedom? How’s it sound? Where does performance give way to truth? Being, FKA Kriss Mincey (she/her/hers), writes music and essays, asks questions like these, and explores how we imagine ourselves and each other.
Biography
Being is an American Black Afro-Southern writer and musician based in Baltimore, Maryland. She will lead interdisciplinary discussions inspired by music, sociology, philosophy and public action.
After more than 200 live music performances in Philadelphia and nationwide, including award show appearances, an award-winning annual art series and four concurrent live music residencies from 2015-2017, Being was awarded the 2019 Racial Justice Fellowship at the Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive (CoFED), where she developed a research framework for racial justice projects rooted in the stewardship of authentic human relationships. She planted and harvested fruit trees with Baltimore Orchard Project, and started writing about performance, bodies, labor, land, home, and belonging.
Being serves as Director of Divest Ed at Better Future Project in Cambridge, MA, where she and a team of genius organizers name and interrogate obstacles to organizing across lines of race and class on college campuses in the movement to divest from fossil fuels. She’s writing letters, recording music, and working in her body as an everyday act of freedom. She received her MFA in Music at Bennington in Spring 2023.