Iris Dipini is a political activist born and raised Ponce, Puerto Rico who joined the diaspora in New York in 1997. Iris is a worker in the building service industry and has been dedicated to the struggle for the Independence of Puerto Rico for over two decades. She is committed to liberation via a feminist pro black, pro queer, anti-fascist and anti-colonial lens and her work spans operating at the very local level on the streets of Puerto Rico and New York to deposing at the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee.