Luzviminda Uruzi "Lulu" Carpenter

Luzviminda Uzuri Carpenter (pronounced Loose-b-min-dah ooh-zir-e car-pen-ter) aka Lulu, works for Historic Seattle as Caretaker at Washington Hall. Recently, she founded Uzuri Consulting & Productions and a collective called Green Bodies with other fierce womyn of color and KnowMades (a youth solidarity organization). Carpenter has worked with Hidmo, Ladies First Collective Organizing Committee (an anti-rape collective), and Pinay sa Seattle-GABRIELA. Carpenter has also worked in the fields of intimate partner violence & sexual violence with the Asian Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) and recently through YouthCare Orion Center. She has honed her passion skills for youth advocacy and mentorship for the past 8 years at YouthCare James W. Ray Orion Center Drop-in & Outreach Team, Franklin High School Political Science & Public Service Academy, the Service Board, Seattle Young People’s Project, and Seattle YouthSpeaks
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JusMoni brings locally grown vocals and vision to Washington Hall

by Luzviminda Uruzi "Lulu" Carpenter
Nurtured by the Seattle scene, R&B singer JusMoni has come into her own, and is ready to lift up a new generation of local music and activism.
May 9, 2013

OuterSpaces tour unites voices from the margins at Washington Hall

by Luzviminda Uruzi "Lulu" Carpenter
As a mixed race, Filipina, 2nd generation immigrant, Black, round, queer, 1st generation college student, daughter of farm workers from a military family, it was pretty hard to find my reflection in mainstream media growing up. But I found another world of people who, just like me, did not “fit” with the mainstream, but were […]
Nov 27, 2012