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Rosa Clemente is a Black Puerto Rican grassroots organizer, journalist, and entrepreneur. She is one of this generation’s most sought after public speakers. Minister Ben Chavis-Muhammad of the Hip Hop Summit Action Network, “Rosa is one of the most inspirational and dynamic speakers of the Hip Hop generation. After hearing her speak you will be inspired to join the movement for social justice!”

With earned degrees from the University of Albany and Cornell University she is committed to scholar-activism and youth organizing. Her work as an activist has taken her across the United States and internationally.

She has delivered lectures on topics such as; African-American and Latino/a Intercultural Relations, Hip-Hop Activism, The History of the Young Lords Party, and Organizing to Free United States Political Prisoners.

Rosa has written for Clamor Magazine, The Ave. magazine, The Black World Today, The Final Call and numerous websites. She has been the subject of articles in the Village Voice, The New York Times, Urban Latino, and The Source magazines.

She has appeared on CNN, C-Span, Democracy Now and Street Soldiers. In 2001 she was a youth representative at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in South Africa and in 2002 was named by Red Eye Magazine as one of the top 50 Hip Hop Activists to look out for.

MOST RECENTLY Rosa was a cofounder and coordinator of the National Hip Hop political Convention that drew over 3000 Hip Hop generation activists brought together to create a national agenda for the hip-hop generation and merging the grassroots with electoral politics.

Currently she is a producer with WBAI’s (99.5 FM/NYC), an organizer with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, spokesperson for the National Hip Hop Assembly and a Board Member for the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty (NCADP).

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