Sheila Mirza joins YWDEP!
We’d like to welcome Sheila as YWDEP’s new INTERN – see her bio below for incredible accomplishments! She joins us through PANORAMA-A Community Arts Initiative with whom we’ve partnered to make this internship possible. Sheila is a powerful youth empowerment organizer, as well as a spoken word and graffiti artist with her roots deep in “South Asian Central,” Queens, NYC. Sheila will be helping us in the coming months as we prepare for our performance; she’ll be calling individual YWDEP members in the near future to help finalize a performance date, in addition to assisting us with performance logistics, outreach, publicity and production. If you haven’t had a chance to meet Sheila yet, please welcome her – she rocks!
Sheila Mirza Biography
Sheila Mirza is a 20 year-old youth organizer, spoken word artist, poet, and muralist who began organizing for social change at age 14 in Queens, NYC. She is a volunteer staff with the Youth Leadership Support Network in Washington, DC working to produce a variety of events including: Sisterfire INCITE - DC Women Against Violence festival; National Education Association Peace and Justice Caucus “Education Not Incarceration” conference; and Lands and Cultures “Trading Guns for Guitars” Festival. She coordinates projects in youth media, theater, movement history, open-mics and workshops at schools, colleges and conferences. She is a frequent performer at local and national events and cast member of Sol & Soul: Art for Social Change, Barrio Street Theater/Teatro de los Trabajadores production of Sin Fronteras, and Suspect Street Theater. She taught graffiti arts for DC children at the Higher Achievement Program through PANORAMA Community Arts Initiative, and is now serving as intern for the Young Women’s Drumming Empowerment Project in DC.
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The Young Women’s Drumming Empowerment Project seeks to empower a core group of young women by guiding them in a process of learning how to play hand drums and percussion, along with expressing their opinions and telling their stories. The girls work with local artists to build a strong collection of rhythms, songs & spoken word. The 12-week project culminates with 3 final performances featuring the work of the project participants. Project updates and developments are listed below.
