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Artists and Speakers
Ana María Alvarez Founding Artistic Director of the Acclaimed Salsa-based, Urban-Latin Dance Theater Company Contra-Tiempo • Taking the Lead: Redefining Afro Latin Dance to Empower and Connect Communities
• Reclaiming the Latino Voice in Latino Dance and Salsa
AXIS Dance Company Disability and Dance • A Pioneer in the World of Dance - Dancers With and Without Disabilities
• Award-winning Dance Company offering Performances, Workshops and Lectures
Lakota Harden Acclaimed Orator, Community Organizer, Diversity Trainer • Veteran activist in Native American communities
• Her lectures and workshops focus on unlearning racism, sexism and other social oppressions as well as "decolonization" workshops for Indigenous peoples
Marc Bamuthi Joseph A Leading Voice in Performance and Arts Education • National Poetry Slam champion, Broadway veteran, dancer/choreographer and featured artist on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry on HBO
• Recipient of the U.S. Artists Rockefeller Fellowship which annually recognizes 50 of the country's "greatest living artists"
Kiwi Hip Hop Artist and Filipino Community Activist • Formerly with the acclaimed Filipino hip hop group Native Guns, his latest CD is The Summer Exposure Mixtape
• Also facilitates Hip Hop workshops for young people
Ariel Luckey Hip Hop Theater Artist, Poet, and Educator • Exposes White Privilege and the Theft of Native Land through his solo show "Free Land: A Hip Hop Journey from the Streets of Oakland to the Wild Wild West"
• Director of the Free Land Project, which produces dynamic hip hop theater, keynotes, workshops, forums and cultural events
Bill Shannon Dance & Media Artist: Hip Hop Dance and Disability •Widely recognized in the dance/ performance world, the hip-hop and club dance scene, the urban arts movement, and the disabled artist community
• Numerous awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award
Carmen Mitzi Sinnott Award-Winning Actress and Arts Educator • Her solo show based on her own parents, SNAPSHOT: a true story of love interrupted by invasion, explores the forces of history, race, and war
• Best Actress nominee at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival & recipient of a Brooklyn Arts Council’s NYSCA Individual Artist Award
