Naomi Ortiz

Naomi Ortiz (they/she) interrogates self-care, disability justice, and climate action through their poetry, writing, and visual art. They are the author of Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice (Punctum Books, 2023) and Sustaining Spirit: Self-Care for Social Justice (Reclamation Press, 2018). A 2022 U.S. Artist Disability Futures fellow and a 2020 NALAC Border Narrative Change grantee, Ortiz, a disabled Mestize, explores the relationships between self, community, and place in the Arizona U.S./Mexico borderlands.