Jael Uribe Elizabeth Medina is best known as Jael Uribe (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, February 10, 1975) is a writer, storyteller, poet and painter creator of the female poetic foundation named Women Poets International.
In 2017 she received in Norway the “Freedom of Expression Award 2016” (Ytringsfrihetsprisen) by the Norwegian Author's Union in Oslo.
In 2015 she was nominated “Women Of The Year” by the Dominican newspaper El Diario Libre, for her cultural work in 2014.
Her work has unified literary groups, public and private institutions such as Amnesty International[2] (Malaga), among others, to promote the cause of non-violence.
As president of the Women Poets International Foundation MPI Inc., she has coordinated events in the Dominican Republic,[3] Mexico, Spain, United States, Colombia, Argentina,[4] among other places in Latin America,[5][6] Europe,[7] Asia, and Africa and Germany.
[8] She is the author of the poetry book “De la Muerte al Fénix” (From death to phoenix), that compiles her poetry up to the year 2014 published by the Ministry of Culture in DR and the Direction of the Santo Domingo Book Fair in December 2016.