Poet, performer, producer Meres-Sia Gabriel’s work deals with helping marginalized groups center themselves through artistic expression and personal narrative. In 2024, she launched the first ever public panel discussion and community conversation honoring the perspectives of adult children of the Black Panther Party.  Year of the Panther Cub: We Were There Too! panel discussion and her one-woman show I Was There Too! act as catalysts for intergenerational conversations around self-care in activism and caring for children in revolutionary movements.

Meres-Sia is a featured poet in the Oakland Museum permanent installation Black Power in California. She is also the bestselling author of I Twirl in the Smoke and a co-author of KQED/BE-IMAGINATIVE watch guide for the emmy-nominated film When the Waters Get Deep. In 2023, she was invited to collaborate with De Young Museum of San Francisco for a poetry series in the galleries to enhance visitor experience of the Kehinde Wiley and Lhola Amira exhibitions. This led to her  creating her one-woman show I Was There Too! 

In addition to her artist practice, Meres-Sia is a former high school teacher of 20 years, an adjunct French instructor, a teacher consultant for the Bay Area Writing Project and the founder of her own creative writing program, Life-Changing Writing.  When she is not teaching, writing, and performing, she is dreaming, and enjoying being the mother of two adult children. Meres-Sia currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.