Adele Nieves

Adele Nieves (www.adelenieves.com) is a Nuyorican who relocated to Detroit three years ago. She is a media activist, independent journalist/mixed media-maker, and Watsu (energy healing/bodywork in water) therapist-in-training. Most recently, she was the National Communications Coordinator for the 2010 US Social Forum. Adele was an editor for the southeast Michigan magazine collective Critical Moment, one of the core organizers for the SPEAK! Radical Women of Color Media Collective, is on advisory board of the Allied Media Conference and is on the board of East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC). She has worked with Essence, Life Magazine, and People En Español. Her writing has also appeared in ZNet, Bitch, make/shift, Left Turn, and B.L.A.C. Magazine, as well as in several anthologies and zines. Adele is passionate about working in non-traditional mediums because it is where she feels she can inspire the most change. She covers stories and issues often overlooked by the traditional media, as they are usually of the greatest consequence for the majority of people. Adele was Essence of Motown’s “2007 Writer of the Year” for her continued hard work, literary creativity and her efforts to improve Michigan’s literary community. In between her efforts at transforming media and building community-based support structures for mental health, disability and resource sharing, she can be found searching for a home-cooked Caribbean meal.