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Tony DelaRosa is California by chance and Cambridge by choice. He’s a Filipinx-American Educator, Writer, Spoken Word Poet, Social Activist and budding Sriracha Chef. He is a cofounder of Indy Pulse, a citywide youth spoken word organization in Indianapolis and founder and Executive Director of Boston Pulse Poetry (in Greater Boston, MA). As a current graduate student in the Arts in Education program at Harvard Graduate School of Education, he serves as the Co-Chair for the Pan-Asian Coalition for Education, Tri-Chair for the 16th Annual Alumni of Color Conference and Communications Fellow through the Voice Program. Find out more about his work by visiting CNN, The Hechinger Report and NPR.