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Sharon Lee De La Cruz is an multi-disciplinary artist, entrepreneur, and activist, and educator from New York City. Her work includes graffiti and street art, comics, public art murals, interactive sculpture, coding, and animation. She is also known by the graffiti tag name Miss 163, after163rd Street in Hunts Point in the South Bronx, where she grew up. When she was fifteen she moved to West Palm Beach where she became interested in graffiti. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from Cooper Union. While an undergraduate she received a Fulbright Fellowship to study experimental filmmaking and mural making in Lima, Peru where she formed the feminist graffiti collective Maripussy Crew. She received her master's from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

She was a community organizer and program director of both ACTION (Activists Coming To Inform Our Neighborhood) and WOMEN (Where Our Minds Empower Needs) at the Point Community Development Corporation where she taught young women about sexual health and sexuality. In 2013 she was a brand ambassador for Calvin Klein's CK One line. She is currently an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU, and was a Lambda Literary Fellow in 2022.

Her graphic memoir, "I'm A Wild Seed", was published in 2021 by Street Noise Books. The book explores the intersections of De La Cruz's identity as a queer Black woman from a Caribbean Latinx family.

Activist, graffiti artist, comics artist, public art murals, interactive sculpture, coding, and animation.

''She graduated with a BFA from Cooper Union and a MPS from NYU-ITP. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, Processing Foundation Fellowship, and a Tin House Summer Workshop participant.''

Wrote graphic novel memoir "I'm A Wild Seed", which was published by (?) in