Simi Linton is an American arts consultant, author, filmmaker, and activist.
[6] Since then, Linton has worked with organizations such as United States Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art,[7] Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts[broken anchor],[8] Gibney Dance,[9] The Public Theatre, Dance/NYC,[10][11] the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and other cultural, activist and academic institutions.
In 2014, Linton and Christian von Tippelskirch produced and directed the documentary film Invitation to Dance.
[12] The film was based, in part, on Linton's memoir My Body Politic and her long history of activism.
Linton was appointed to the New York City Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission (2015)[14] and the She Built NYC Committee (2018)[15] by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.