Actress Reenah Golden from Geva's "No Child" Interviewed by Norma Holland, Ch 13, WHAM Rochester, NY

Reenah L. Golden is an award winning writer, actress, poet, activist and educator. For over 15 years Reenah has been using the power of the Spoken Word publicly to affect social and political change and create new ways of thinking. She teaches and guest lectures regularly at local schools, colleges, universities and cultural institutions and has been invited to perform and present nationally and internationally. A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology and native of Rochester, NY, Reenah is co-founder of Kuumba Consultants, an arts-in-education agency dedicated to matching artists-of-color with youth agencies and schools seeking quality arts & cultural programming. She has received several local, national and international grants and awards for her work including the Edith Glick Sholman Children's Foundation grant and Partners of the Americas Education and Culture travel grant. Reenah is a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Awardee and the 2006 Writers & Books Teacher of Young People Literary Awardee. Her solo performance of Nilaja Sun's No Child has received critical acclaim and opened to sold-out audiences at Geva Theatre, Syracuse Stage and toured nationally and internationally. Her newest work, Black Coffee; the Poets' cafe currently in production with live studio audience workshops has received rave reviews for it's innovative marriage of art, history, improvisation and audience interaction. In addition to her performance arts endeavors Reenah is also a published writer, independent broadcast producer and avid traveler. When she's not globe trotting or cyber-surfing she resides in Rochester's 19th ward neighborhood.

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