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Myra Melford is an American avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow,Melford was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as an "explosive player,a virtuoso who shocks and soothes,and who can make the piano stand up and do things it doesn't seem to have been designed for."
Bienvenido Nuqui Santos was a Filipino-American fiction,poetry and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo,Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao,Pampanga,Philippines. He lived in the United States for many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering Asian-American writer.
Joy Harjo is an American poet,musician,playwright,and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate,the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms. Harjo is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts,completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976,and earned an MFA degree at the University of Iowa in its creative writing program.
KimberléWilliams Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and a scholar of critical race theory. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School,where she specializes in race and gender issues.
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Eileen Strempel is an operatic soprano,author,higher education policy expert,and academic from Syracuse,New York,who is currently the inaugural dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Strempel’s scholarly work advocates for college transfer students—and both access to and support for higher education—and the works of historically underrepresented composers.
Renee Tajima-Peña is an American filmmaker whose work focuses on immigrant communities,race,gender and social justice. Her directing and producing credits include the documentaries Who Killed Vincent Chin?,No Más Bebés,My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha,Calavera Highway,Skate Manzanar,Labor Women and the 5-part docuseries Asian Americans.
Roger Bourland is an American composer,publisher,blogger,and Professor-Emeritus of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Pam Tanowitz is an American dancer,choreographer,professor,and founder of the company,Pam Tanowitz Dance. She is a current staff member at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts where she teaches dance and choreography. Her work has been performed at notable performance venues such as the Joyce Theater,the Joyce SoHo,and New York Live Arts,Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Brenda Elaine Stevenson is an American historian specializing in the history of the Southern United States and African-American history,particularly slavery,gender,race and race riots. She is Professor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History and Professor in African-American Studies at the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA). As of Autumn 2021,she was appointed inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at St John's College,University of Oxford.
Steffani Jemison is an American artist,writer,and educator. Her videos and multimedia projects explore the relationship between Black embodiment,sound cultures,and vernacular practices to modernism and conceptual art. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art,Brooklyn Museum,Guggenheim Museum,Whitney Museum,Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,and other U.S. and international venues. She is based in Brooklyn,New York and is represented by Greene Naftali,New York and Annet Gelink,Amsterdam.
Sarah Michelson is a British choreographer and dancer who lives and works in New York City,New York. Her work is characterized by demanding physicality and repetition,rigorous formal structures,and inventive lighting and sound design. She was one of two choreographers whose work was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial,the first time dance was presented as part of the bi-annual exhibition. Her work has also been staged at The Walker Art Center,Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival,The Kitchen,and the White Oak Dance Project. She received New York Dance and Performance awards for Group Experience (2002),Shadowmann Parts One and Two (2003),and Dogs (2008). She has served as associate director of The Center for Movement Research and associate curator of dance at The Kitchen. Currently choreographer in residence at Bard's Fisher Center,she is the recipient of their four-year fellowship to develop a commissioned work with Bard students and professional dancers.
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music,located on the campus of the University of California,Los Angeles,is “the first school of music to be established in the University of California system.”Established in 2007 under the purview of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture and the UCLA Division of Humanities,the UC Board of Regents formally voted in January 2016 to establish the school. It is supported in part by a $30 million endowment from the Herb Alpert Foundation.
Courtney Bryan is an American composer and pianist whose work combines influences from jazz and gospel traditions.
Helen Florence North (1922-2012) was an American classical scholar and an expert on Greek and Roman literature.
Ariela Julie Gross is an American historian. Previously the John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law (USC),she is now a Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law.
Cecilia Menjívar, born and raised in El Salvador,is an American sociologist who has made significant contributions to the study of international migration,the structural roots of inequalities,state power,gender-based violence against women,and legal regimes. Menjívar is currently a Professor of sociology at the University of California,Los Angeles where she is the Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair.
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- ↑ "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Forty-Second Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS". John Giorno Foundation. August 23, 2021. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
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