Earthseed Fellowship Program

Jason Magabo Perez is a Filipino American writer, performer, scholar, teacher, and anti-disciplinary Gemini thinker. Perez is the author of numerous works in poetry and performance, including his most recent book of poetry, I ask about what falls away (Kaya Press, 2024). From 2023-24, Perez served as San Diego Poet Laureate and was a Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. Currently, Perez is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at CSU San Marcos. 

Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975, National City, CA) is a Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and researcher. Her ongoing series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production. Her works are in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; Amon Carter Museum, TX; The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden, CA; Denver Art Museum, CO and Mellon Art Collection, NYC and others. She was recently awarded the 2025-2026 Kully Distinguished Fellowship in American Art, 2024 US Latinx Art Fellowship, 2023 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency 2020, Creative Capital Award 2020.  Rodriguez and her work have been featured in BBC News: In The Studio, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Spectrum News 1, and others.  

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz is a Haitian-New Orleanian interdisciplinary artist and curator born and raised in New Orleans, LA. His practice often engages themes of history, pop culture and satire while centering narratives of the Caribbean and Southern United States. He has contributed to publications such as HuffPost and Hyperallergic and his work has been featured by The Oxford American, The Associated Press and others. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College, a Master of Science degree from The University of Manchester (UK) and will graduate with a Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in May 2025.  What’s up

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz is a Haitian-New Orleanian interdisciplinary artist and curator born and raised in New Orleans, LA. His practice often engages themes of history, pop culture and satire while centering narratives of the Caribbean and Southern United States. He has contributed to publications such as HuffPost and Hyperallergic and his work has been featured by The Oxford American, The Associated Press and others. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College, a Master of Science degree from The University of Manchester (UK) and will graduate with a Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in May 2025.