DEENA is a poet, songwriter, multimedia artist and cultural practitioner. Her writing has been featured in film, radio, musical production and print.

Her areas of research include anti-colonial eco-social justice, anti-patriarchal subversion, Gnostic cosmology, Syriac history, narrative medicine, poetics, astrology, philosophy, ethnographic divinity and mysticism.

She is the creator of Syriac Music Archive and authors walking gnosis on Substack. Deena is based on the ancestral coastal Ohlone lands of Turtle Island.