Morales, Iris: - Iris Morales is an educator and lifelong community activist. She brings her legacy of social justice activism to projects with young people, teachers, and media producers promoting racial and gender justice, and the decolonization of Puerto Rico. Ms. Morales has built organizations dedicated to grassroots organizing, education, and media. Currently, as founder and executive editor of Red Sugarcane Press, she publishes books dedicated to the diasporic history and culture of Puerto Ricans, Blacks, Indigenous, and other people of color in the Americas. Ms. Morales is an attorney, a graduate of New York University School of Law, and earned an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College in New York.