Sara Monteiro is an African/Cape Verdean/African American Providence Native: her focus and talents have been utilized to provide quality service to under-represented communities by way of education, community organization and storytelling. She is an entrepreneur and artist. Sara’s goal is to preserve culture and history through storytelling and more specifically poetry. As a resident artist at CIC, she produces art as a form of storytelling about her rich ethnic background as a 1st generation Cape Verdean. She is the proud owner of Distant.Relatives LLC. and OUTSPOKEN.