Sharon De La Cruz

Sharon De La Cruz is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and activist from NYC. Passionate about STEM education and visual narrative, her research and practice are rooted in culturally relevant STEM pedagogy, accessible design, and social justice. She is also interested in designing stories and experiences addressing topics like environmental justice, reproductive rights, police violence, and joyful resistance, and is currently focused on storytelling and sequential narratives through comics.

In fact, thanks to comic storytelling, she landed in the Tin House Summer Workshop and created her first graphic novel memoir, “I’m a Wild Seed” (Street Noise, April 2021). Kirkus Reviews called the work a “potent graphic memoir about the forming of one woman’s queer identity… [that] effectively portrays both the fears and joys of discovering one’s marginalized identity” and Publisher’s Weekly wrote “the wit and exuberance found here marks her as a worthy new artist [in her] limber, playful debut collection.”