Maria Thomas

Beyond Do No Harm Fellow

Maria Thomas (she/they) is an artist, poet, and organizer whose current work focuses on interrupting criminalization in medical care and public health spaces. 

Over the years she has held a variety of jobs including teaching theatre and dance to middle schoolers, painting murals for nonprofits, and working at a shelter for homeless women with unmet mental health needs, all in South India; and she has worked for over a decade in the health care sector in the U.S. Midwest.

As a multiply displaced immigrant, an internationalist and anti-imperialist commitment lies at the heart of her work and politics.

Maria is the current Beyond Do No Harm fellow at Interrupting Criminalization. You can follow her on Twitter @mariatho1.