Luciana Q McClure is an interdisciplinary Afro-Brazilian public feminist scholar, activist, and artist. With a background in studio art focused on photography, she recognizes the power of art as a language to bridge communities and explore issues of gender, race, culture, and historical narratives, while examining how power operates in daily life. As an activist and community organizer for over seven years, Luciana co-founded the collective Nasty Women Connecticut in response to a global call initiated in NYC. Through her work, she has embraced collaboration as a vital tool for community building, care, healing, and knowledge production. In recent years, Luciana’s organizing efforts have led her back into academia. She completed her MA in Women’s and Gender Studies during the pandemic and began teaching immediately while continuing her practice as a public scholar and organizer. Luciana has organized art exhibitions, presented at various conferences across disciplines and engaged in conversations with influential feminist thinkers, activists, artists and scholars who share her belief that a better world is possible.  

Currently, she teaches at Southern Connecticut State University, UConn, Quinnipiac, and Sacred Heart University.