Mariah Barber.
Mariah Barber is certified DEAI trainer and culture worker. She is a self-proclaimed "bag lady" and "nomad" who is claiming DC as home for a while until she returns to Latin America. She is an activist, spoken word poet, author, researcher, and cumminuty health educator. She is a former radio show personality with WZMB “Good Vibrations Radio” and current podcaster on “Poetically Correct” and “Attempting to find da Answers”. Barber is the founder of Beyond Your Organization LLC a company dedicated to exploring identity through workshops involving spoken word poetry and uplifting unheard voices. Her book “Of Mics & Pens & Gods & Other College Courses” covers her unique brand of womanhood through haiku's ,long poems and more. Riah lives for the Spanish language, hiking ,QPOC, anthropology, Indian food, liberation , Earl Grey tea, thrifting , records, HIV prevention , yoga and open mic nights. She has her master’s in social behavioral & Community Health and has focused her efforts on bettering the health outcomes for women of color through storytelling with words or research.