Ryan Oakley

Ryan Oakley is a Black woman multimedia artist and emerging comic creator born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is a 2016 graduate of Wake Forest University with a B.A. in Studio Art and Spanish. In 2018, she was one of 50 artists selected from over 3,000 submissions for Power to the Polls, a national voter registration drive and traveling art exhibition. She has been commissioned by Adobe, A&E Network, NARAL, the California Endowment for the Arts, and Lifetime. Her comic work includes fan art in Bitter Root #3, a short comic in the anthology Invisible Illness, and a short story in the Trina Robbins-led anthology Won't Back Down, which had a preview panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2023.