Having worked for 15 years as a community organizer and trauma counselor in Washington, DC and Seattle, Ms. Kimaro took her activism to a wider audience by merging her beliefs, experiences and creativity in the medium of film. The result is her directorial debut, the award-winning personal documentary, A Lot Like You.

Using her film journey as a backdrop, Ms. Kimaro will engage the Mixed Roots community in discussion about the important connections between creative expression and experience in strategically re-centering conversations around ethnicity, identity, culture, accountability and justice.