Re: Your work is done That was the subject line in the email I received earlier this week from my friend and colleague Eva Paterson. Ha!...

Last week I had the honor of serving as the Emcee at the Awards Ceremony for the California ChangeLawyers Leaders Summit. Click here to...

"Everyone please go see this show! You hear people say “Art is Resistance” . . . well this definitely fits that bill. You are taken on a...

In Alice Walker’s 1983 book, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, she coined the term “colorism” to define a form of...

The version of my play that was on stage for five months through the end of March 2019 poses a series of questions (paraphrased here)....

March is my birthday month, and I recently came upon this photo of last year's b'day cake with a line from my show -- you can remember my...

March 8 -- it's International Women's Day, and women are leading and have been leading the way in so many arenas, too often without...

It has been such an honor and joy to present my one-woman show, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? in the San Francisco Bay Area these...

Topping the list of the many things I am grateful for is being a bilingual Spanish speaker. This was the language of our home and there...

“The final line is spoken, the audience applauds, the actors take their bows. But at an increasing number of theaters, the night isn’t...

So many cities in the United States have names from languages other than English. Native American languages gave us Chicago, Milwaukee,...

Yippee, My Show Got Extended Through January 26, 2019 Thanks to the wonderful support of all y’all who have attended my show, and/or told...

My one-woman show, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? has been on stage at The Marsh Theater in San Francisco almost a month. Thank...

Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? That’s me, and my director Rebecca Fisher, in front of The Marsh Theater before our tech rehearsal...

One month from today, October 25th, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? opens for a seven-week run at San Francisco's Marsh Theater. I...

Six years ago, I was co-directing the Women Immigrants Project at New America Media in San Francisco. I called a state legislator in...