Sackona Fitts (she/her), Creative Technologist (Intern), is an artist, educator, creative technologist and roller skater. Born from parents of two genocides, the Global Anti-Black genocide and the Pol Pot Regime, she rises from Boston, MA. Inspired by her parents and ancestors survival stories, heart and spirit, Sackona grapples and excavates evidence of the intimacies of living/death and dying through multimedia storytelling. She blends education, poetry, photography, video, sculpture and now immersive technology in her practice.
She has taught as a teaching artist at The Transformative Culture Project, The Public Prep Network, The Bronx Documentary Center, and ReelWorks. Her passion for teaching is deeply inspired by the power of youth, the school of life and her work as a youth organizer in her adolescent years.
She is an alumna fellow of the Laundromat Project’s Creative Change Fellowship, Intelligent Mischief’s Black Imagination Content Creation Fellowship, Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship and the James Baldwin Scholars. Sackona has her BA in Africana Studies, Creative Writing and Media at Hampshire College. Her thesis work "Beyond Bricks and Bubblegum", a multimedia installation about home was exhibited at the Hampshire College Art Gallery. She is currently working on her chapbook inspired by “Beyond Bricks and Bubblegum”.
Sackona is a M.P.S Candidate at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program specializing in Virtual Reality and Immersive experiences.
When she isn’t unscrambling poetic chords or worlds, she loves to fly by roller skating and go on foodie adventures.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.