- Current Location
Miami, Florida
- Occupation
writer and community arts activist
- About Me
A journalist, academic, and unabashed do-gooder, I cover Worthy Causes for MOLI and teach at Barry University -- where I'm famous for eating lunch (see my pic in the Miami Herald above). As a community arts activist, I've worked with teen mothers, welfare recipients, women in prison, the homeless, and youth in crisis. Currently I'm involved in the Urban Book Club -- a reading and writing workshop with youth in the Miami Bridge youth crisis center. I'm also working on Double the Vote (www.doublethevote.com), a campaign to double the number of registered voters who participate in local elections.
- Colleges
Michigan, Princeton, Duke
- Major
Always English
- General Interests
Reading, writing, dancing, dance theater
- Hobbies
some day I'll garden
- Books
Direct Line to Heaven: How Latin Pop Remade the American Dream (next year from St. Martin's Press)
Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America (Duke Press, 1997).
- Magazines & Newspapers
Category305.com
- Fitness
yoga, walking
- Fine Arts
I like to watch
- Performance Art
What time is rehearsal
- Who I want to meet
Artists and activists who believe in liberty -- and luxury - -for all.
- Places I've been
Argentina, Canada, Colombian, Costa Rica, England, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Kenya, Martinique, Senegal, Spain
- Places I'd like to go
Mali, Sicily, Shanghai, Jamaica, Haiti
Do-Gooder