Consider Culture: Funding with Monica Carrillo Zegarra
Consider Culture: Funding with Monica Carrillo Zegarra
March 31 | 6 PM | Virtual
March's episode of Consider Culture features Monica Carrillo Zegarra, M.F.A. in a conversation that explores how she's brings her skills and perspectives as a writer, performer, and activist to her current role as a funder.
Brooklyn Arts Council invites you to join us and consider the change you can make with creativity and culture.
Monica Carrillo Zegarra, M.F.A.,an Afro-Peruvian writer, performer, and human rights advocate, is also founder and former director of LUNDU Center for Afro Peruvian Studies and Advancement. Her most recent book about Afro-Peruvian women's experience of racism and sexism comes after winning a lawsuit against blackface in Peru, and after successfully leading housing initiatives post-earthquake in Peru. Carrillo has been recognized as a global leader by Google Earth, and by The Elders, an organization founded by Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. Formerly a community organizer at the Queens Museum, Carrillo is the current Regional Director of Latin America of a philanthropic organization that supports grassroots movements, food sovereignty, alternative economies, and climate justice.
About Consider Culture: Pathways in the Creative Sector
Brooklyn Arts Council presents Consider Culture: Pathways in the Creative Sector, a virtual space designed to share professional experiences to inform and inspire other creatives to meaningful, generative, and viable career options in Arts and Culture. Consider Culture also advocates for the transformative power of the arts with stories of imagination, impact, and success from across the Creative Sector.