2005 Women of Color & Allies Summit:
Entertainers
Deyanira Bautista
Deyanira Bautista, a native of the Dominican Republic, has lived
in New York City since age 12. She studied percussion with Edwina
Lee Tyler and has played the congas and other similar instruments
since 1983. While in New York, she performed with Kuumba Women
Caravan and the Rhythm Express on various college campuses at
Take Back the Night events and in women’s music festivals like Sister
Fire and the New England Women’s Music Festival. Recently, she
performed at the Kennedy Center Millenium Stage. While music is
her passion, Bautista works full-time as a Clinical Social Worker with
District of Colombia Public Schools and consults with neighborhood
HIV clinics.
City at Peace
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City at Peace
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City at Peace uses the performing arts—acting, song and dance—to teach conflict resolution and prevent violence. Every year,
teenage cast members create an original show that is based on their
lives. This year’s show—Am I There Yet?—follows young people
struggling to succeed at any cost in their schools, workplaces, and
families. The show raises complex questions about the way race and
sexuality are dealt with in schools, the reasons young people stay in
abusive relationships, the role drugs and alcohol plays in many teens’
lives, and the power that dedicated and unconventional young leaders
have to make change. Built as the result of four months of intensive
dialogue around gender, race, age, sexuality, power disparities and
the roots of violence among DC-area youth, the performance is raw,
witty, and vibrant, as relevant for adults as it is for teens.
Zenobia
Zenobia, a drummer for 10 years, starred on Broadway in the rock
musical HAIR and toured in Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. She
is one of the original Weather Girls, featured in “It’s Raining Men.” She
co-produced and arranged Richard Foltz’ “A Songwriter’s Christmas”
and associate produced Ase Drumming Circle’s, “Souls A-Gathered.”
Her debut CD, “Home” received three Grammy nominations for Best
New Artist, Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Instrumental
Composition.
Karen Williams
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Karen Williams
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Internationally acclaimed
comedian and humorist Karen
Williams is the founder of HaHA
Institute, which offers humor-related
workshops, lectures
and speeches to numerous
organizations. Williams also
created and continues to facilitate
the Humor-at-Large Workshop
Series. She is the founder of
the National Women’s Comedy
Conference, past president of the
Association of Women’s Music
and Culture and former Board
Member of AIDS, Medicine and Miracles. She designed her humor
workshops to build healthy self-esteem and to encourage full support
of the principles of tolerance and respect for the dignity of human life,
using the tool of appropriate humor.
Williams’ background also includes more than 20 years of theatrical
training, improvisational comedy, dance and movement, psychodrama,
active parenting, metaphysical studies and Buddhist practice.
Kristina Gray (DJ K La Rock)
Kristina Gray, also known as DJ K La Rock, conducts TWA trainings
at Wilson and Cardozo High Schools and assists with marketing
and website development. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Goucher
College in 2001 with a BA in Communications. As a college student
she worked closely with at-risk youth at various Baltimore area
schools. In the past she's interned with the National Women's
Alliance, Points of Light Foundation, and Ms. magazine.
A DC area native, she’s been involved with numerous local grassroots
organizing efforts including Ladyfest DC, the Visions in Feminism
conference, and the 2003 National Conference of Organized Resistance.
In 2002 she was published in the anthology "Colonize This: Young
Women of Color on Today's Feminism."
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