Èzili Dantò

Èzili Dantò is a human rights and international law attorney, award winning playwright, performance poet, social commentator, writer and author. She was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and raised in the United States. She is a Haiti scholar and runs the Èzili Network, the Free Haiti Movement, the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network and Zili Dlo: Clean Water, Renewable Power and Skills Transfer for Haiti Èzili Dantò has dedicated her career to correcting the historical, media and colonial lies and racist narratives about Haiti. Her original writings are at the leading edge of international human rights and media advocacy work. She is a regular commentator and news analysis guest on major media outlet and programs serving communities in the US, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Èzili Dantò is the recognized leading and most trustworthy international voice in Haiti advocacy writings, human rights work, Haiti news, culture and analysis. She has published columns and research articles in The Progressive, Global Research, Black Agenda Report, San Francisco Bay View, LA Progressive, Oped News, and Pacific Free Press and has essays in several anthologies. The Red, Black and Moonlight series is a dramatic memoir based on her experience in Haiti on the first return since she moved to the US as a young child. Vodun Woman is a published collection of her Vodun Jazzoetry performance poetry. We Won't Obey - Nou Pap Obeyi, her newest book and documentary series is to be released in 2018-2019. Èzili is a member of Poets and Writers.