“The Undocreatives report serves as a witness to the undocumented labor force of the LA creative industries, an essential community within the arts sector. Today, there is a widespread lack of awareness of this segment of the population within the arts and culture community, underscoring the need for improved systems and practices to promote the inclusion and vitality of undocumented artists and arts professionals. The focus of this document is undocreatives. The term refers to undocumented members of the creative industries (artists and arts professionals).”

- Erika Hirugami, MA. MAAB. 2021 Arts for LA Fellow.

This paper is an independent project supported by Arts for LA through the Laura Zucker Fellowship for Policy and Research.

We, too, are members of the UNDOC+ spectrum, and your safety is a top priority. Therefore, any and all information you provide will be kept confidential in perpetuity and never shared with anyone.

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