In 2019, while on my Fulbright (student researcher) in Jamaica, I was awarded an Embassy Grant (US) to start a social change theatre organization in Kingston #InnovativeWomenJA. Downtown Girls Theatre Collective/Every Body Theatre Project ran in Trench Town, bringing girls from Denham Town, Trench Town, and Parade Gardens together in a theatre across borders/ theatre for social change program. Later, the program was moved to the Institute of Jamaica's Junior Centre, a few months before COVID gripped the world. Since 2022, I have been facilitating girls and teenagers in Tèt Ansanm Leadership Group for Girls at Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project in Little Haiti, Brooklyn.I'm currently formalizing my program and looking to start two more programs in the next six months, which offer culture-forward and relevant Theatre for Social Change programming.I am open to connections, conversations, and ideas.Specific Skills:• Facilitation• Artistic leadership• Arts Programming• Initiating and developing creative, corporate, organizational, and governmental partnerships• Script development, script coverage, and dramaturgy• Extensive experience as an actor, theatre director, and teaching artist• Live Performance Administration: Artist management, Fundraising, Grant Writing, Communications (press releases, e-newsletters, season brochures, and organizational collateral); Collateral design (InDesign, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Quark) • Program and Project Development• Experience working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
Listed skills include Teaching, Psi, and Theatre.