On July 13th 2008, in Chicago, IL, Rosa Alicia Clemente and former Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, were nominated by the Green Party of the United States, as Vice-Presidential and Presidential candidates respectively. They made up the first women of color ticket in American history and Rosa Clemente was the first Latina in the history of the U.S.A. to be on the vice-presidential ballot in over thirty states.

Rosa Alicia Clemente is a community organizer, radio journalist (WBAI 99.5 FM, NYC-PACIFICA RADIO),Hip-Hop activist and a 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate with the GREEN PARTY. Born and raised in the South Bronx and Elmsford, NY she is a graduate of the University of Albany and received her Masters of Professional Africana Studies and Education at Cornell University.

Rosa has been a community organizer and activist for over 15 years. She has been a featured keynote speaker, panelist, and political commentator all over the United States. In 1995, she developed Know Thy Self Productions, a speaker's bureau for young people of color. She began presenting workshops and lectures and to date has presented at over 400 colleges, town halls, rallies and national and international conferences. Know Thy Self Productions now includes an expanded college speakers bureau which has produced four major community activism tours and consults on issues such as Hip Hop activism, media justice, voter engagement among youth of color, third party politics, intercultural relations between African American and Latino's, immigrant rights as an extension of human rights and universal health care.

Rosa's academic work has been dedicated to researching national liberation struggles inside the United States, with a specific focus on The Young Lords Party, The Black Panther Party and the Black and Brown Liberation Movement's of the 60's and 70's as well as the effects of COINTELPRO on such movements. She has also written extensively on Afro-Latino identity and politics, Sexism within Hip-Hop Culture and Hip-Hop Activism, Media Justice, and African-American and Latino unity.

While a student at the University of Albany(SUNY), she was president of the Albany State University Black Alliance (ASUBA) and was appointed Director of Multicultural Affairs for the Student Association in her senior year. At Cornell she was a founding member of La Voz Boriken, a social political organization dedicated to supporting Puerto Rican political prisoners and the independence political movements of Puerto Rico. She graduated with an MPS degree from the Africana Studies and Research Center and wrote her masters thesis on the Political Development of the Young Lords Party from 1969-1974. In 1998 she joined the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement(MXGM) and began organizing around issues of police brutality, the Prison Industrial Complex and the freedom of US political prisoners and prisoners of war.

In 2001, Rosa was a youth representative at the first ever United Nations World Conference against Xenophobia, Racism and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa where she sat on the reparations committee and coordinated the Black August South African Hip Hop Tour staring, dead prez, Jeru DA Damaja, Black Thought of the Roots, Boots for the Coup and Talib Kweli. After returning from South Africa she began co-hosting and producing the show Where We Live on Pacifica Station WBAI, 99.5FM in New York CIty. In 2002 she was named by Red Eye Magazine as one of the top 50 Hip-Hop activists to look out for. In 2003 she cofounded and coordinated the first ever National Hip Hop Political Convention(NHHPC) that drew over 3000 activists who came together to create and implement a national political agenda for the Hip-Hop generation. On May 1st, 2003 Rosa traveled to Vieques, Puerto Rico to document the US Naval withdraw from the island after 67 years of US military control. In 2005 she co-founded the R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop Coalition, a Hip-Hop generation based media justice organization; and in September 2005 10 days after Hurricane Katrina and Rita ravaged parts of the New Orleans and Mississippi, Rosa traveled to the devastated areas as an independent journalist and her on the ground reports were distributed to radio stations all over the world.

Rosa has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships and is a frequent contributor on the following media outlets: On the Real with Chuck D on Air America, Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, The Bev Smith Show, Hard Knock Radio with Davey D, Make It Plain on SIRRUS and CNN with Roland Martin and numerous other radio shows.

Rosa has recently relocated back to the South Bronx, where she resides with her husband and daughter. She is currently writing her first book: When a Puerto Rican Woman Ran for Vice-President and Nobody Knew Her Name and will soon begin pursuing her doctoral studies in politcal science.