dre jácome

dre jácome is a transdisciplinary storyteller weaving across land-based and digital technologies. as a child of the andes mountains, magdelena river, and georgia red clay, she has been a lifelong student studying the subversive healing technologies found on the land and body. inspired by magical realism and the survival arts of everyday living, her work aims to oppose and propose experimental counter archives that honor and defend BIPOC intimate knowledge systems held in story, nature, and recovering cosmologies. with her background as a trained herbalist, historian, and cultural organizer, she grounds her creative storytelling projects with relational methods including archival research, oral history, critical ethnobotany, and partnerships with community organizations and chosen family. she works across mediums including design, poetry, assemblage, computation, video, audio, and installation. her work has appeared at Lincoln Center, Smack Mellon, and MOCADA Abolition House. she has been a resident with Future Histories Studio and Wildseed Community Farm, and she serves on the Community Advisory Council at Powerhouse Arts. she received a BA in History & Latin American Studies from Swarthmore College, and a MS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. 

dre is a 2025 – 2026 Rhizome Fellow.