Marina 'Heron' Tsaplina is a Russian-born, Lenapehoking (NYC) based interdisciplinary eco-puppetry artist, writer and disability culture activist who forms participatory poetic enchantments through puppetry performance and site-specific installations.  Her artistic practice, writing and scholarship spans investigations into how the logics of colonialism have shaped the philosophies and imagination of biomedicine, western science, ecology, illness and disability.