Bio: Juana Alicia is an American muralist, printmaker, educator, activist and, painter. She has been an educator for more than forty years. Juana Alicia, as part of the faculty Berkeley City College, founded and directed the True Colors Public Art program.

In 1972, Juana Alicia was recruited by labor organizer Cesar Chavez on one of his national speaking tours, to work for the United Farmworkers Union as an artist. She moved to Salinas, California during the peak of theUnited Farm Worker Movement. Instead of doing direct cultural work, Juana Alicia went to work in the agricultural fields as a field organizer. During the strikes in Salinas in 1973 and 1976, she worked for Fresh Pict, a strawberry grower.[3] She also worked for Underharvest, a United Fruit-owned lettuce company. She worked up until September 1976 in the fields but then stopped because at the time she was seven months pregnant with her son and was exposed to pesticide poisoning.[3] The poisoning led to chronic pneumonia which she suffered for several years. She has a painting style is colorful, complex and dynamic. Through her art, she attempts to convey a sense of shared humanity and appreciation for the environment. Alicia paints in a style that blends realism, abstraction and surrealism together, as needed depending on her subject matter.