Ysabel Y. Gonzalez

Ysabel Y. González (she/her/hers) oversees Dodge Poetry, working to leverage poetry for cultural organizing and movement building, narrative change, and empathy, repair, and healing. She provides creative and strategic direction for Dodge Poetry’s events, and ensures alignment with the Foundation’s mission to build a just and equitable New Jersey.

Ysabel was raised in Newark and received her bachelor’s from Rutgers University and her MFA in Poetry from Drew University. Before joining the Dodge Foundation, Ysabel worked for Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Ysabel is also a CantoMundo Fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and author of Wild Invocations (Get Fresh Books, 2019).

When Ysabel isn’t at her desk, you can find her writing and performing her own poems.