artist CV

RESIDENCIES, INTERNSHIPS, & FELLOWSHIPS 

Engaging Artist Fellow, MoreArt, New York, NY (2024)

RISE Program Fellow, Institute for Non-Profit Practice, New York, NY (2024-25)

Public Policy Fellow, NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault, New York, NY (2023)

Intern, StopItNow and Center for Violence Prevention Research, Remote (2022 - present)

Artist in Residence - Poetry, Bronx Letters Academy Community Foundation, Bronx, NY (2022-23)

REAL Change Fellow, RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund, Washington DC (2018-19)

Canvasser, Research Assistant, Horizontes, Knight Cities Challenge winner, Wichita, KS (2018)

Advocacy Intern, International Rescue Committee, Wichita, KS (2018)

Member, Young Women of Color Leadership Council, Advocates for Youth, Washington D.C (2017-18)

Fellow, Young People For, People for the American Way, Remote (2017-18)

Intern, Center for Applied Research and Evaluation, Community Engagement Institute, Wichita, KS (2016)

COMMUNITY & PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT 

Community Dialogue & Book Clubs

Moderator, A is For Abortion Book Club: Killing the Black Body, Story of Jane, Liberating Abortion (2024-25)

Capacity/Skill Building Workshops 

Co-Facilitator, Daring to Be Powerful multiweek organizer training, Audre Lorde Project, Remote (2023)

Co-Facilitator, Art As Time Travel creative writing workshop, Community Care & Safety Day, Audre Lorde Project, Brooklyn Movement Center, Brooklyn, NY (2023)

Talks, Keynotes & Webinars: authored presentations and public-facing educational content

Keynote: “Do I Believe Myself?” Combatting Survivor Impostor Syndrome: Campus Sexual Assault  Awareness Week Keynote. New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault. (2021)

Co-Facilitator: Choosing Pleasure: Radical Healing for Trauma Survivors, Center for Women’s Studies Weekly Brownbag Series, Colgate University (2020)

Panelist, Defend Title IX, ReproAction (2017)

Talkbacks, Panels, & Moderation: facilitated discussions, panels, and audience engagement events

Panelist: “Intersections: Connecting Reproductive and Environmental Justice Through Storytelling Puffin Foundation”, Puffin Foundation x ReproEco, Brooklyn, NY (2025)

Talkback Moderator, all it takes is ONE ACT Playwrighting Festival, A is For, New York, NY (2025)

Guest Speaker, Panelist, Words of Choice, ReproEco, New York, NY (2024)

Guest Judge, TalkBack Moderator, all it takes is ONE ACT Playwrighting Festival, A is For, New York, NY (2023-24)

Panelist, We Dissent: Voices for Reproductive Justice Zoom Launch, ReproEco, Remote (2023)

Community Member Interview, Horizontes, Wichita, KS (2018)

CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS 

BOOKS/ANTHOLOGIES: 

Banuelos, T (Author, 2023). Abuelita Rising: A Personal Project. TRAELABAE Studios. 

ISBN: 9798985277005

Banuelos, T (Editor, 2023). One Pen: Poetry Anthology. Print. Bronx Letters Academy Community Foundation. 

POETRY: 

Banuelos, T (2021). Little Red Wagon, Black Becoming: A Legacy of HERstory. National Harm Reduction Coalition. 

ESSAYS: 

Banuelos-Rovaris, T (2025). Uncovering Self-Archives: Memory Work as Time Travel and Decolonial Praxis. Medium.com -MoreArt, New York, NY.

APPLIED SOCIAL RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS & ADVOCACY 

EDUCATION

2020-23,  Master of Science in Applied Social Research & Digital Sociology, CUNY Hunter College

2013-18,   Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Women’s Studies with University Honors, Certificates in Tilford Diversity Studies, Community Psychology, Wichita State University

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