ROSA CLEMENTE is an award-winning organizer , speaker , political commentator , producer , independent journalist , scholaractivist and former vice presidential candidate . A leading voice of her generation , the Bronx-born Black-Puerto Rican is frequently sought out for her insight and commentary on Afro-Latinx identity , Black and Latinx liberation movements , police violence , colonialism in Puerto Rico , hip-hop feminism , third-party politics and more . She is the creator of Know Thy Self Productions , under which she has organized multiple national tours ; PR on the Map , an independent , unapologetic , Afro-Latinx-centered media collective founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria ; and the Black Diasporic Organizing Project , a nonprofit dedicated to combating anti-Blackness within the wider Latinx community . She is an associate producer on the 2021 Oscar-winning biographical drama film Judas and the Black Messiah and is currently completing her PhD at the W . E . B . DuBois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst .
RIBBON SKIRT WARRIORS is a documentary film that follows the many ways water protectors tried to stop the last tar sands pipeline and includes information , dialogue and scenes connecting the pipeline construction and extreme energy extraction with the epidemic of missing murdered indigenous women and people . This film has the potential to reach and positively impact the tens of thousands of men and women who stood up to the construction . As Enbridge Line 3 pipeline construction began in northern Minnesota , so did the spiritual , cultural and physical resistance by Indigenous Women and their allies whose mission is to protect the sacred wild rice watersheds of the 1855 Treaty Territory . In December 2020 , in the frigid temperatures of a Minnesota winter , along the Mississippi River , Winona LaDuke and Tania Aubid ’ s sacred lodge sat alongside the Mississippi River and between two drill pads in an effort to enforce Indigenous treaty rights . After 10 months of pipeline construction , the Indigenous women of Line 3 and their allies had one thousand charges for trying to protect this pristine watershed .