BIO

Sima Lee, originally from Norfolk, Virginia, has been organizing, teaching and creating art for 30 years in DC, MD and VA. Sima founded the direct action, mutual aid, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist grassroots group “Food, Clothing & Resistance Collective”-“Maroon Movement” in 2015, the QTGNCNB centered intentional community house “Maroon House” and “Black Lens Photos” which showcases social documentary photography and media. Sima created the Marooncast podcast with partner KLC to deliver a down to earth political education program for the masses, and has recently launched a new cultural resistance historical documentary/oral archive /abolitionist/mutual aid project entitled: “Maroon Quest” that aims to document and support freedom fighters and movements across the country, in an effort to connect and strengthen networks for Black/New Afrikan cooperation and liberation.

Sima Lee is the Minister of Education for the New Afrikan Liberation Collective, an inside-outside, prisoner led socialist abolitionist formation. She is a regional coordinator with Prison Lives Matter and an organizer and documentary photographer with Ujima People’s Progress Party in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sima is also an emcee, songwriter and Hip-Hop educator with the Zulu Union community organization and global network. Her EP entitled Trap Liberation Army is currently on all major digital platforms and her upcoming EP: From An Outlaw, To A Maroon is scheduled for a 2021 release.