“I am a woman of color, Black, Filipinx. I am a medium weaver: a vocalist, a dancer, a performer. I’ve lived all over Chicago…here is where I developed my roots. From the streets I’ve walked, the sounds, the food, the communities of dancers, thespians, artists, poets, musicians, the community leaders and activists, menaces to society… I am composed of them all. Therefore I speak and create from the dynamics that both separate and unify.  These are the stories I speak with the work I create”    – Jennifer Ligaya