Alison Mariella Désir is an endurance athlete, activist, and run crew founder. She has turned her athleticism into activism to support women’s rights and serve urban communities by curating inclusive runs and events that create an authentic experience around how to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Alison Mariella Désir is an endurance athlete, activist, and run crew founder. She has turned her athleticism into activism to support women’s rights and serve urban communities by curating inclusive runs and events that create an authentic experience around how to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
I lift myself, I raise
Unafraid and daring
I am what escapes
what flees and flies
what splits and dashes
I am a dance
I do not fall
Unafraid and daring
I am what escapes
what flees and flies
what splits and dashes
I am a dance
I do not fall
I am a heel breaking the ground
the dust of toes
wings waving in wind
I move,
I am a movement,
focused and fierce, I smile.
I laugh,
I lift and carry sisters
I am most free running for freedom
Unlike Any
the dust of toes
wings waving in wind
I move,
I am a movement,
focused and fierce, I smile.
I laugh,
I lift and carry sisters
I am most free running for freedom
Unlike Any
ALISON DÉSIR | HARLEM RUN FOUNDER
SHOP HER LOOK
Aja Monet is an American contemporary poet, writer, and activist of Cuban-Jamaican descent. Her work has been internationally recognized, and her most noted poem “My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter” recently headlined at the Women's March in D.C.
Women are achieving unbelievable feats of athleticism beyond anything the world has seen. Breaking convention and elevating themselves above any plane of comparison. With the help of lyricists, poets, and spoken word artists, we’re celebrating these women who are UNLIKE ANY.
Women are achieving unbelievable feats of athleticism beyond anything the world has seen. Breaking convention and elevating themselves above any plane of comparison. With the help of lyricists, poets, and spoken word artists, we’re celebrating these women who are UNLIKE ANY.