The Second Year 2007 - 2008
Professional
Development
November 2007
Kamilah Forbes
"Motivating The Reluctant Learner"
Kamilah Forbes (Photo:
Dale Davis)
Kamilah Forbes,
who conducted ALCC's "Motivating The Reluctant Learner"
Professional Development workshop is an actress, director,
playwright, and producer. She is known for her strong commitment
to the development of creative works by, for, and about he
Hip-Hop generation. She is artistic director of the Hip-Hop
Theater Festival
http://www.hiphoptheaterfest.org/ the annual festival taking
place nationwide in New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.,
and Chicago. OBIE Award winner Will Power, TONY Award winner
Sarah Jones, Rennie Harris, Nilaja Sun, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and
Indio Melendez have had their work leveraged under artistic
direction. In addition she is Co-Producer for the Peabody
award-winning show "Russell Simmons' HBO Def Poetry Jam" and was
assistant director to the TONY award-winning Broadway tour
"Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam."
Marty Hardisky
and Charity Green, Teachers in Rochester City School District's
Youth and Justice Programs who are part of ALCC (Photo: Dale
Davis)
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