As a community builder I consider myself a cultural organizer, which I describe as someone who organizes community to create culture and creates culture to organize community.
ImprovISA
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Most of this work is enacted through the Institute for Improvisation and Social Action (ImprovISA) an organization I co-founded and direct. ImprovISA supports people to develop through improvisation and performance while advocating for a developmental, reconnecting and healing approach to social action.
PCE
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I am also a founding member of Performing Communities de Esperanza (PCE), a bilingual and multicultural coalition in la frontera. We are an interdisciplinary group of artists, teachers, therapists and activists who promote human development through play, performance and social therapeutics.