Here's a quick bio about Jlove Calderon, expect some great articles and commentary from her in the near future. Welcome to the team..Jlove!
JLove is an author, educator, and activist who is dedicated to the
struggle for human rights, the positive proliferation of youth and
Hip-Hop culture, and the liberation of all peoples bodies, minds,
spirits and communities.
She is co-producer of the We Got Issues! National Arts and Civic
Engagement Tour, and the co-creator, facilitator, and life coach of
the We Got Issues! Leadership Institute for Young Women, which works
to
ignite feminine centered leadership.
As an educator and counselor JLove worked at El Puente Academy for
Peace
and Justicefor over a decade, and spent six years working in teen
shelters and recovery centers. She has presented at numerous
universities including Columbia, Harvard, Pace, and UCLA. She's
been
blessed to share stages with great minds like KRS-One, Sway,
M1, Asia-One, Xzibit, Medusa, Rosa Clemente and DJ Kuttin' Kandi.
JLove is a core member of REACHip-Hop, and has co-founded numerous
events and organizations, including the B-Boy Summit, the San Diego
Chapter of Zulu Nation (SD Zulu-One), Sista II Sista, and the Active
Element Foundation. She is the author of two books, We Got Issues!
(New
World Library, 2006) and That White Girl (Atria, 2007), and
graduated Cum Laude from San Diego State University with a B.A. in
Africana Studies, and received her Masters in Education at Long Island
University.
Current projects include taking That White Girl to film, a spanking new
Hip-Hop Curriculum Guidebook due out March 2008 called Conscious Women
Rock the Page; Using Hip-Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change by JLove,
Black Artemis, E-Fierce and Marcella Runell Hall, and a brand new
anthology, Till the White Day is Done with some of the leading thinkers
and cultural creatives in the area of racism and white
privilege. Check
her out at: www.thatwhitegirl.com or myspace.com/truthlovefreedom
www.thatwhitegirl.com
Coming March 2008:
Conscious Women Rock the Page!
Using Hip-Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change
A one of kind Hip-Hop Curriculum Guidebook
by: JLove, Black Artemis, E-Fierce and Marcella Runell Hall
Check out That White Girl interviews and reviews:
just in: Right On! Magazine
www.ballerstatus.com
www.wiretap.com
www.allhiphop.com
BUST Magazine
The Ave Magazine
Rap Fanatic Magazine
Gostei muito desse post e seu blog é muito interessante, vou passar por aqui sempre =) Depois dá uma passada lá no meu site, que é sobre o CresceNet, espero que goste. O endereço dele é http://www.provedorcrescenet.com . Um abraço.
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