Mabel Negrete (CNS) (Native Chilean) serves as the Executive Director and Interim Chair of the Board Directors of IPD Philly. CNS is also an artist, activist, educator, and entrepreneur. CNS is originally from Ngulumapu (Chile) and self-identifies as a Chola-Andina-Picunche-Chileche who migrated to Turtle Island over 32 years ago.
As an artist she is known as the Counter Narrative Society (CNS) | Studio CNS which is a transdisciplinary artist-activist unit that focuses on decolonization, building community, and the abolition of the invisible punishing machine. CNS has founded SPARKmakers LLC and cofounded the Indigenous 215 Collective, Indigenous Peoples’ Day Philly, The Mobile Futures Institute, and other social initiatives. CNS holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
