Eli Steffen is a queer writer, performer, and creative facilitator who believes there is a great value in creativity and art.  In order to build a better future we must be able to see it.  This has been a driving impulse behind both Eli’s art and her facilitation work.  Growing up in the theaters of Vashon Island, WA, Eli learned to value community-centered art.  Having performed up and down both costs with such companies as the Community Arts Project, The Public Circus, and the Teminos Project (Seattle, WA), Eli is excited to be making her home in the “big city” of Seattle, WA.  As a writer, her work has appear in I.E., T(OUR) Magazine, The Bent Mentor Showcase Anthology and other publications.  First learning to facilitate and organize with the Vashon Youth Council, Eli has offered their unique brand of creative, empowering group facilitation for youth and adults since 2008. As a white, male-socialized/privileged, upper-class artist and facilitator, Eli is constantly trying to engage questions of power and privilege while supporting efforts do undo institutional-oppression.  

    



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