Maya Grace Misra is an artist, vexillologist, and community organizer currently living on unceded Kumeyaay territory. Her artistic research and underlying practice center around the role of cultural production— namely visual symbols, iconography, and food media— in maintaining present-day systems of ritual blood sacrifice and violence. As a biracial & white-passing South Asian American woman long accustomed to contradictions between image and substance, Misra’s work explores "passing" as a tool to infiltrate and interrupt harmful systems. She earned her BFA in Studio Art at New York University in 2014 and her MFA in Visual Arts at UC San Diego in 2020.