VioletRiot

Jonaya Kemper is an activist, artist, educator, designer, writer, and games scholar who looks at larp as a means of liberation for people of marginalized identities. Her work often involves the themes of intersectionality, storytelling, and autoethnography as a means to create more inclusive futures and explore a more diverse past. As an experienced early childhood educator, Jonaya has facilitated workshops focusing on larp with young children, constructivism, and its ability to transform lives through empowerment and create resilience. She holds a master's degree with distinction from NYU Gallatin, where she recieved the e. francis White Award for work that has extroordinary merit outside the academy. Jonaya’s design work explores the concepts of emancipatory bleed and liberatory narrative strategy as a way for marginalized individuals to achieve liberation through larping and reflection. She is the originator of the term emancipatory bleed, as well as championing the use of autoethnography and Boal's Theater of the Oppressed within a larping context.