About me
Tarik Bartel (they/them) is a Thai-American community organizer and arts educator whose work is rooted in creating spaces for collective joy and imagination through photography, storytelling, and spoken word poetry. Their poetry and photography work can be found in their self-published book, How They Love. Tarik has featured at East Meets West Bookstore, Lowell Poetry Wheel, the City of Boston, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They are also an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and community organizer.