Yeimy Gamez Castillo is a multidisciplinary queer immigrant artist born in Honduras and raised/ based in Newark, NJ. She is a singer, songwriter, music producer, poet, and multifaceted creative with activist roots as a community organizer. She's co-founder of ImVisible, a community project devoted to empowering, reclaiming, and celebrating immigrant and undocumented narratives using art & storytelling as a healing practice. As a fellow for the Helen Gurly Brown, Bold Women's Leadership Network, she applies her skills with the media conglomerate, Newest Americans at Rutgers University. In her artistic work, she tackles and communicates the intersection of multiculturalism, migration, trauma, healing, sexuality, womanhood, and social progress. Her work uses multimedia to delve into time and memory, representation, psychological and cinematic story tropes. By applying poetic and often metaphorical language, she explores the catharsis of healing, intimately documenting her personal journey.

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