shiloh burton (they/them)

shiloh burton’s passion, purpose and practice is storytelling and the medium remains secondary. As a social practice artist with photographic origins, they possess 30+ years experience in a variety of visual, audio and digital mediums. They craft contexts to activate audience participation and honor our contradictory, messy and beautiful lived experiences to reflect, relate and redefine our authentic embodied voice, place and space in the world.  Personal histories poignantly teach us about ourselves, each other and society. Storytelling in community facilitates dynamic spaces to share narratives of resilience, strategy, love, thriving, justice, healing and transformation. Emerging from their commitment to collaboration, they now focus on facilitating social discourse opportunities through audio and visual portraits.  Community members fluctuate between the role of witness, storyteller, creator and co-conspirator. 

Deeply devoted to holding space for authentic representation to recount factual history, shiloh burton, created the Identity Intelligence Institute in 2005. They are actively engaged in documenting and distributing stories of transformation, healing and intervention.  Coming from a dismantling whiteness, antiracist, Transformative Justice, NVC, PIC: Abolitionist and Education for Liberation background, they know communities possess the solutions and relationships to dismantle systemic oppression and repression together through collaborative commitment, care and action.  They support dynamic spaces for authentic brave heart centered dreaming, creating, action and transformation.