Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary performance artist and writer. Originally from Miami, she received her B.A. from Brown University where she created an independent concentration entitled “Hybridity and Performance.” She has worked with Bay Area non-profit organizations such as Galería de la Raza, the Queer Cultural Center, Asian American Theater Company, the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center, and Proyecto Contra SIDA Por Vida. Her work in performance and video has been presented nationally and internationally. From 2002 to 2008, she directed her own arts organization (a)eromestiza which was dedicated to presenting cutting edge video and performance by queer artists of color. Her writing has been published by Social Justice Journal, shellac, artistmanifesto.com, Antithesis Journal: Sex 2000 and anthologies such as Postcolonial and Queer Theories: Intersections and Essays and Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory / Theorizing the Filipina American Experience. Awards include grants from the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, the San Francisco Art Commission, the Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, the National Association for Latino Art and Culture, the PEO Foundation, the Chicana Latina Foundation, and All College Honors from California College of the Arts, where she is currently pursuing her M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies.