Piper Anderson is a performance, writer, healer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She was a Writing & Democracy Fellow at The New School and received a bachelor’s in creative writing. Piper’s work blends poetry, song, movement, storytelling, and video to create performance that explores the experiences of women and their relationship to spirit, flesh, and power. Currently, Anderson is touring the country performing her latest one-woman show “In Her Memory” which tells the story of one young woman’s journey to find the true meaning of love in a crazy violent world. The show premiered in New York City in 2006 to sold-out audiences has spawned the creation of the "Love Power-Self" curriculum and a book entitled Seeking Wisdom: Joyful Tools for Inner Peace and Spiritual Healing (She Leads Media 2007)

In 1999 Anderson with collaborator Florinda Bryant began performing as a spoken word duo called Ajeʼs Voice and toured the East Coast in the spring of 2000. Aje's Voice became a popular fixture on the male dominated Austin music scene with their dynamic fusion of Hip Hop Soul and Spoken Word Poetry. Since the days of Ajeʼs Voice Anderson has toured extensively as a spoken word artist sharing the stage with such internationally acclaimed artists such as The Last Poets, Medusa, Doug E. Fresh, Dead Prez, The Jungle Brothers, and many others.

In 2001 Piper joined Blackout Arts Collective (BAC) a national organization committed to using the arts as a tool for social change in communities of color. Piper worked with BAC in a number of capacities coordinating youth development programming, organizing four national tours around prisons and policing under the banner of Lyrics On Lockdown. Eventually her dedication to the organization led to her appointment as National Program Director. She served in this capacity until September 2006 when she stepped down to focus her energy on touring “In Her Memory”. .

Cultural organizing has been an important part of Anderson’s work over the course of her career. She believes she has an obligation to serve her community by using her creative work to speak for social change and serve as a catalyst for action. Outside of her work with BAC she has been apart of the development of several initiatives that use the cultural arts as a catalyst for social change. In partnership with long-time mentor and collaborator Rha Goddess Anderson co-founded We Got Issues; a performance based dialogue on young women and political power which premiered at the Apollo Theatre September 2004. That same year Anderson co-authored How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office; Soft Skull Press 2004 and embarked on a national book tour galvanizing youth to get out the vote in the 2004 presidential election with the League of Young Voters. The book has spawned numerous success stories of young people winning elections and turning the political tide in their communities and continues to inspire the mass mobilization of thousands of young people between the ages of 18-35 into local and regional voting blocs.

Piper owes her tremendous accomplishments over the last nine years to the teachers who made it their duty to pass on their wisdom, tools, and inspiration to her so she makes it her duty to do the same for the next generation of artists and leaders. Anderson is a Master Teaching Artist with American Place Theatre, serves as an artist-in-residence in schools and community organizations nationally, and facilitates arts and media programming at El Puente Center for Peace and Justice in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, NY.