Yaraní Del Valle Piñero is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, dancer, educator, cultural promoter, and activist based in New York City. Her interdisciplinary approach to artistic creation has led her to train and collaborate with theater directors, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and educators as a performer, co-creator and/or curriculum developer. Del Valle has designed, developed and taught theater, creative movement, creative writing and Theater of the Oppressed workshops for institutions such as Centro Médico Psychiatric Hospital, Puerto Rico Museum of Art, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) among others. Yaraní was a faculty member of Prometeo Theater at Miami Dade College, the only Spanish-language theater conservatory in the U.S. functioning under an academic institution. She was also a faculty member of Teatro en Movimiento por el Viejo San Juan, a youth theater school directed by Maritza Pérez Otero. Del Valle was part of the Loisaida Center (Lower East Side,NY) Artistic Advisory Committee. She was a cast member of the hit web series CHAMACAS. Yaraní collaborates with theater companies like PregonesPRTT and Caborca, among others. With Pura's Lágrimas, Yarani's music and performance project, she aims to comment and provoke conversations about identity, gender inequality, her experience as a migrant and the devastating effects of colonialism. Her latest venture is Caicu PRoyectos, a nonprofit organization that serves as a cultural platform, empowering Puerto Rican artists beyond geographical barriers. Caicu enables collaborations between artists in Puerto Rico and its diaspora around the globe.