Steven RaspaUS

$teven Ra$pa is an artist, arts advocate, pacifist, prankster, community organizer, and longtime community event producer for Burning Man. He has over 25 years of experience in event production and has worked with numerous cultural organisations and museums. In addition to organizing gatherings for Burning Man, he supports and nurtures Burner communities around the world with their official regional events. He is a founding member of the Burning Man Regional Network Committee and has extensive first-hand experience supporting a growing and globally dispersed community of artists and free thinkers. Named by 944 magazine as one of the most influential people in San Francisco nightlife and culture, Ra$pa first cut his teeth as an artist in the vibrant NYC East Village art scene of the 1980s. He has been a poet, sculptor, installation artist and living artwork. His current medium of choice is "social reality".