Abstract

Josefina Báez, actress, writer, and educator, was born in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Ms. Báez is the founder and director of Latinarte / ay ombe (1986), an art troupe that promotes the arts, artists and culture of latinas in general, Dominicans in particular. Her written work has been published in Vetas (Caribbean Magazine), Brújula/Compass (Latin American Writers Institute-NY), and Ventana Abierta (University of California), among others. Ms. Báez also publishes PoesiAlmanaque (Poetry Calendar). As an educator, she has taught workshops in theatre and creative writing in schools throughout the tri-state area, at the Alvin Ailey summer dance camp, and in Hyderabad, India, in a collaboration with Ankuram--a women's collective working with urban youth. During 2000 she is the Asian Pacific Performance Exchange Program Fellow at the Center for Intercultural Performance, UCLA.

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