Julia Taylor

<p class="MsoNormal">Julia Taylor is a community artist and facilitator with a focus on using theater for social justice.As an undergrad at the University of Michigan, Julia was an active member of the Prison Creative Arts Project, facilitating theater and creative writing workshops in men's and women's prisons and juvenile facilities. After graduating, Julia worked as the Program Manager for Thousand Kites, an arts and dialogue project addressing the criminal justice system at the Appalachian-based arts and education center, Appalshop. She developed a creative arts program at the Otter Creek Correctional Center in Wheelwright, KY, and hosted the weekly radio show Holler to the Hood, connecting prisoners and their families over the airwaves.<span>&nbsp;</span>Her essay "Sculpting Empowerment: Theatre in a Juvenile Facility and Beyond" appears in the new book <em>Performin</em>g <em>New Lives: Prison Theatre.</em></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Julia is currently working towards her Masters in Applied Theater at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, for which she co-facilitated the neighborhood-based project "Safe in This Place; A Franklin Avenue Theater and Dialogue Project," exploring what it means to be safe in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Julia works as an independent facilitator, director, and teaching artist with organizations such as&nbsp;the Apollo Theater's Oral History Project and Voices UnBroken. She is a 2012 <em>Create Change</em> Professional Development Fellow with the Laundromat Project.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>

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