✨RAR NAR 2025 Keynote Speaker: Jay-Marie Hill ✨

Jay-Marie Hill (they/all) is a poet, doula, organizer, aunt, child of cyclists, educators and the offspring of a cross-country motorcycling grandmother. As a St. Louis-based, Black Gender Expansive artist shaped by California's 10,000 miles of bike paths, they sport twenty years of commuter bicycling, ten years of bicycle touring/bikepacking, and are known for expanding cycling-healthy community wherever they roll. Propelled by a lifelong commitment to Mobility and Disability Justice, and National Policy and Advocacy work, their resume spans forming a St. Louis’ queer, trans & sex worker statewide organizing coalition, to teaching and coaching youth organizers and performing artists from St. Louis to San Francisco.

Self-taught Bassist and Saxophonist since their youth, they write, perform, and release music available on Bandcamp and all streaming purchases as Jay-Marie is Holy, including their latest single, Ride For It (Know U), that combines their love of biking, with a badass bass line and longing lyrics towards more rounds. They have co-founded multiple organizations that help our world transcend the traditional, includin 2019’s Black Trans Bike Experience, which launched as a 160-mile bikepacking trip from historic Black & Trans cities Philadelphia, Baltimore, and ended at the first ever Trans March on Washington, D.C. 

From Foco Fondo, to Red Bike & Green ATL in ‘22, and as a member of the 2024 class completing the historic 260-mile 1928 Legacy Tour (offered by Major Knox Adventures), Jay-Marie is an avid cyclist eager to bring more people into this welcoming and lifelong world. Gemini Sun, Virgo moon, & Scorpio rising, they show no signs of stopping in their work to equip their audiences to dream bigger, question better, and love harder.

For more info, check out Jay-Marie on socials! @black.transcendence and @blacktransbiketour

Jay-Marie's Keynote, "Transcendence in the Bar and the Grove: On Rhythm, Ritual & Lineage", will be on Saturday evening.