UPDATE: This production has been cancelled due to recent advances with the COVID-19 Outbreak. Please see “Important Update About Pipeline” for more information.

Join us Saturday, March 21 for a post-show conversation with Jamila Batts Capitman.

Jamila Batts Capitman, BA. is a VISIONS Inc. diversity, equity, inclusion consultant. A graduate of the Temple University Africana Studies department, Jamila is the former Director of Multicultural Student programming at Milton Academy and founder of the Legacy Project, a national youth development program which empowers participants to view themselves as catalysts for change and social justice. Jamila is an actress, playwright and producer/director, currently a candidate for a Master’s degree in Drama Therapy at Lesley University where she is member of the Expressive Therapies Change Team.

UPDATE: This production has been cancelled due to recent advances with the COVID-19 Outbreak. Please see “Important Update About Pipeline” for more information.

Join us Saturday, March 22 at 4:30pm for a post-show conversation with Leon Smith. 

Leon Smith is the executive director of Citizens for Juvenile Justice, a statewide organization that advocates systemic reform for equitable youth justice. A 1995 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio and a 1999 graduate of New England School of Law in Boston, Leon has worked as a trial attorney in the juvenile justice system for many years, starting in 2001 as a juvenile court public defender, before starting his own law practice devoted to juvenile and criminal court advocacy in the Massachusetts Juvenile, District and Superior courts. He then moved on to at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City, working on youth-oriented local and national public policy issues.

Leon started the Racial Justice Project for the Connecticut-based Center for Children’s Advocacy. This project advocated reforms to reduce unnecessary and disproportionate school exclusion, improve services for Connecticut’s alternative school students to prevent drop-out and provided legal representation to youth of color subjected to harsh school discipline and unconstitutional targeting by law enforcement. He was also the lead facilitator and co-chair of Racial and Ethnic Disparities (RED) committees, which addresses disparities in the juvenile justice system in three Connecticut cities, and an appointed member of the Connecticut Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System.

UPDATE: This production has been cancelled due to recent advances with the COVID-19 Outbreak. Please see “Important Update About Pipeline” for more information.

Join us Saturday, March 28 for a post-show conversation with William Pruitt.

William Pruitt is a PhD Candidate in African and African American Studies at Harvard University, where he has earned a primary field in English and a secondary field in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies. His dissertation explores the history of hypothetical Black U.S. Presidents.

Join us Monday, January 27th following the performance for the official press opening of Vanity Fair. 

UPDATE: This production has been cancelled due to recent advances with the COVID-19 Outbreak. Please see “Important Update About Pipeline” for more information.

Join us Saturday, March 28 at 9pm for a post-show conversation with Jenna Chandlar-Ward .

Jenna Chandler-Ward has been an educator in non-profits, schools and colleges for over 20 years, working with students from kindergarten to graduate level. Most recently, Jenna has been a middle school English and drama teacher outside of Boston for the last ten years. Jenna is also a founder and co-director of the Multicultural Teaching Institute, which produces workshops and a conference for educators on issues of equity and inclusion. Jenna currently lives in Cambridge, MA and is a teacher and diversity consultant, specializing in professional development for educators on issues of whiteness and its impacts on teaching and learning. She holds a M.Ed. from Pepperdine University, and a bachelor’s degree from Marlboro College.

Jenna is the Cofounder and Codirector of Teaching While White, a non-profit consulting group. TWW seeks to shine a light on the ways that whiteness impacts education. Over 84% of educators and an even greater number of administrators are white, yet many don’t know that they have a race or that it matters. Through professional development, policy and curriculum development, and coaching, TWW works with educational institutions nationwide to work towards a more equitable and anti-racist system. TWW also has a podcast and blog that looks at issues of race in education. Jenna had previously been an educator in schools, universities, and nonprofits for over 20 years. Jenna is also a founder and Codirector of the Multicultural Teaching Institute.