Arts Advocacy and Community Engagement

Community Leader and Voice for Arts Advocacy and Social Justice

Yale Bassett Award for Community Engagement from Yale University
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Chair of Mayor’s Youth Commission (MYC)
Race Relations Panel, State of the City, Education Equity, Mental Health Awareness, Red Alert Project, served for three years on the MYC
Student Teacher with Boys & Girls Club Summer School Program
Taught Drama and Dance for early elementary school students who were expelled or suspended

 

 

  • Think Like a Genius Foundation Youth Advisory Board, 1st Place team for challenge to help youth homelessness, address food insecurities in DPS
  • Denver Center for Performing Arts Education Department Summer Camps, Counselor for Children’s Summer Programs, Family Days and Teen Company Actor
  • Saturday Night Alive Gala Volunteer and Performances to Raise Funds for Arts Education
  • Leadership Training State and International Thespian Conventions
  • State Thespian Officer  (STO)– lobby at the State Capitol for Arts Advocacy
  • School Thespian Leader –Vice President, Treasurer, ____
  • International Finalist for ITO
  • Organized Holocaust Awareness Panel at my school, Assistant Director of the Producers
  • Art for Social Change – Worked to create greater tolerance and combat discrimination through theatre:

Parade at Lincoln Center with Manhattan Concert Productions

The Laramie Project and Study of the Mathew Shepherd Foundation, Assistant Director the Producers and Holocaust education;

The Wall, original work performed at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance’s Granny Dances to a Holiday Drum; Dance Africa

  • Black History Show Actor and Advocate at Denver School of the Arts
  • DPS Gala Master of Ceremonies
  • Martin Luther King Day Jr. Chamber of Commerce Luncheon Speaker
  • Speaker at Safe City Youth Summit on Mental Health Awareness and the Mayor’s Seal of Education Equity for Denver Public Schools
  • Speaker for the Aspen Challenge
  • Denver Actors Fund Fundraising and Advocacy
  • JHUB – Selected and Served on Jewish Youth Leadership Board: Created new program to connect Jewish teens to leadership opportunities.