Who is Alice?
I am an award-winning playwright, a performance artist, a poet published in national and international publications, a producer and a teacher of poetry.
In the year 2000, I earned my Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution from Antioch University McGregor School in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
I had the pleasure of being the lead editor of the anthology CRUX: A conversation in words and images South Africa to South USA; and for Poems of Solidarity for Haiti, available as a free download from In Motion Magazine.
Since 1995, I have worked as coeditor of “Art Changes” at In Motion Magazine, a multicultural, online publication about democracy.
“Art Changes”@ www.inmotionmagazine.com
I designed and produced the 1988 and 1990 National Black Arts Festival “Roots Festival”--a two-day celebration of African Arts in the Diaspora; designed and produced "Japan Encounter," a four-day performance festival featuring 125 master artists from Japan with a performance for 5,000 Atlanta school children at the Atlanta Civic Center; Co-Artistic Director for “Art for The Peoples Sake”-- a City of Atlanta festival-a three-week, citywide event featuring over 350 Atlanta based artists performing at over 100 venues like laundry mats, churches and bars.
It has been a joy to perform my poetry and "autobiographical myths" in venues from New York City to Washington State to Chattanooga and extensively across the southeast region.
For nine years, I have written and performed the storyline for the annual recital of 200 young dancers from Moving in the Spirit in Atlanta; the most recent production “Between Worlds” premiered May 6, 2010 at The Rialto Center for Performing Arts in Atlanta. I also had the pleasure of writing and performing in two full -length dance productions with Gash Voight Dance Troupe, St. Louis, MO.
As a poet and lecturer I have worked on college campuses such as Emory, The Evergreen State College, Amherst University , Columbia College, Oxford College, Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, Berea College, Florida AMU, Georgia Tech., Clark College, and Salem College to name a few.
For more than three decades, I had the pleasure of teaching poetry in the Atlanta and Fulton County school systems; for state arts agencies in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina; and in a variety of museums, churches, community organizations and grassroots programs.
With Dr. Lisa Delpit, I founded and served as Director of Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning (APAL), serving as facilitator and mentor for teaching artists/classroom teacher collaboration using the arts to infuse the core curriculum.
My experiences include being the executive director for the Arts Exchange, an inner city artist’s colony in Atlanta, and for the regional artists’ service organization Alternate ROOTS.
Honors include the Fund for Southern Communities’ Torchbearers Award; Georgia Writers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Metro Atlanta DSA’s Frederick Douglas-Eugene Debs Award.
I had a wonderful experience serving as the national lead staff organizer for the first United States Social Forum in Atlanta 2007. In my current position as Associate Director at American Friends Service Committee, I oversee programs in the southeast region including the New Orleans Peace and Conflict Transformation Project.
