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Indira Etwaroo

Dr. Indira Etwaroo is associated with a large amount of titles such as producer, educator, artist, and scholar. Her most recent title pertains to her appointment as Executive Director of The Center for Arts and Culture at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation on January 26, 2015. She has been described as “a seeker of meaning, of relevance, of values; and a meaning-maker; searching for relationships, striving towards depths of understanding and seeking transformation.” Dr. Etwaroo holds a passion in making a change in communication and the arts thus making it into a profession of hers. Her ideology in her endeavors consists of bringing "all of these already successful arts-related endeavors under one umbrella and"^[1] to "re- imagine them from a multi-disciplinary point of view.”^[1] As acting Executive Director, Dr. Etwaroo hopes to utilize the ever present and growing energy in Brooklyn, New York to expand the corporation's institutional identity defining the role of arts and culture "in advancing its mission and position in Brooklyn’s broader cultural landscape and beyond.”^[1] Dr. Etwaroo oversees and directs the Billy Holiday Theater, Youth Arts Academy, Skylight Gallery and Restoration Plaza’s Presenting Program in her position in CAC (The Center for Arts and Culture). The mission of CAC stands "to present, promote and preserve the artistic legacy of the African Diaspora and further the artistic development of the community."^[1]

Early Life

Dr. Indira Etwaroo grew up in Newport News, Virginia and later attended Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia where she received her Bachelors' Degree in Music Education in the year of 1994. In the year of 1999, Dr. Etwaroo attended Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to receive her Masters in Dance Education and in the year of 2004 received her PhD in Cultural Studies with a concentration in Dance, a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, Anthropology, and African American Studies. In between her studies in the year of 2003, Dr. Etwaroo worked for a year in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as a Fulbright Scholar where she collaborated "with a group of refugee Somali women and children to explore the performance aesthetics that surround the controversial practice of female genital cutting."^[2] For her endeavors, Dr. Etwaroo received the Emerging Doctoral Scholar Award and the Graduate Research Award from the National Congress on Research in Dance. Within the same year, she has served as adjunct professor teaching Dance, Movement and Pluralism, and Research Methods at Temple University. Following the year of 2003 prior to Dr. Etwaroo joining the NYPR (New York Public Radio) in 2006, she offered her services at BAM (The Brooklyn Academy of Music) where she cultivated some of the most notable education and humanities’ programming in the music, dance, drama and visual arts field.

Education

PhD in Dance and Cultural Studies (2004)

Masters in Dance Education (1999) from Temple University

Bachelors’ Degree in Music from Longwood University (1994)

Work

Dr. Indira Ewaroo joined NYPR (New York Public Radio) on September 2006 and worked there until May 2013. During this time, she founded the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space in 2009 acting as Executive Producer. The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space's mission statement is to "galvanize conversations around the life, arts and politics of our city and our world."^[3] The Greene Space is situated on the ground floor of the New York Public Radio's headquarters inviting New Yorkers to become a part of live broadcasts and tapings of WNYC's signature programs. Following her time at NYPR, Dr. Etwaroo joined NPR (National Public Radio) as Executive Producer and Director of a project called NPR Presents, a program creating a "live storytelling experience" by "bringing together national and local news coverage, music, poetry and visual projections on a selected topic. NPR Presents programs start out as live events and are then available for download on the NPR website."^[4] In January 2015, Dr. Etwaroo was appointed as the Executive Director for the Center for Arts and Culture at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration, but continues to contribute to NPR.

Executive Director of Center for Arts and Culture at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation

taught music and dance in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Richmond, VA

Adjunct Professor, Lecturer and Scholar/Artist-in-Residence at colleges and universities

founding executive producer of WNYC Radio’s Herome L. Green Performance Space

Worked at Brooklyn Academy of Music

directs the iconic Billy Holiday Theater, Youth Arts Academy, Skylight Gallery and Restoration Plaza’s Presenting Program

Exhibitions

Awards

Emerging Doctoral Scholar Award

Graduate Research Award

BAM’s Dance Africa Award for Outstanding Service

Education and Community Heritage Award

Forty Under 40 Dynamic Achievers Award

References

http://www.restorationplaza.org/about/news/cacbsrc2015

http://www.tnj.com/40-under-forty/2009/indira-etwaroo,-phd

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The Arts, Reimagined". Longwood Magazine. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
^ "People - Indira Etwaroo - The Greene Space". www.thegreenespace.org. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
^ "About The Greene Space". greenespace. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
^ "The Arts, Reimagined". Longwood Magazine. Retrieved 2016-03-30.

[:0-1] "The Arts, Reimagined". Longwood Magazine. Retrieved 2016-03-30.

[2] "People - Indira Etwaroo - The Greene Space". www.thegreenespace.org. Retrieved 2016-03-30.

[3] "About The Greene Space". greenespace. Retrieved 2016-03-30.

[4] "The Arts, Reimagined". Longwood Magazine. Retrieved 2016-03-30.

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-Dr. Indira Ewaroo joined NYPR (New York Public Radio) on September 2006 and worked there until May 2013. During this time, she founded the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space in 2009 acting as Executive Producer. The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space's mission statement is to "galvanize conversations around the life, arts and politics of our city and our world."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thegreenespace.org/about/|title=About The Greene Space|website=greenespace|access-date=2016-03-30}}</ref> The Greene Space is situated on the ground floor of the New York Public Radio's headquarters inviting New Yorkers to become a part of live broadcasts and tapings of [[WNYC]]'s signature programs. Following her time at NYPR, Dr. Etwaroo joined NPR (National Public Radio) as Executive Producer and Director of a project called NPR Presents, a program creating a "live storytelling experience" by "bringing together national and local news coverage, music, poetry and visual projections on a selected topic. NPR Presents programs start out as live events and are then available for download on the NPR website."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://magazine.longwood.edu/article/the-arts-reimagined/|title=The Arts, Reimagined|website=Longwood Magazine|language=en-us|access-date=2016-03-30}}</ref>
+Dr. Indira Ewaroo joined NYPR (New York Public Radio) on September 2006 and worked there until May 2013. During this time, she founded the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space in 2009 acting as Executive Producer. The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space's mission statement is to "galvanize conversations around the life, arts and politics of our city and our world."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thegreenespace.org/about/|title=About The Greene Space|website=greenespace|access-date=2016-03-30}}</ref> The Greene Space is situated on the ground floor of the New York Public Radio's headquarters inviting New Yorkers to become a part of live broadcasts and tapings of [[WNYC]]'s signature programs. Following her time at NYPR, Dr. Etwaroo joined NPR (National Public Radio) as Executive Producer and Director of a project called NPR Presents, a program creating a "live storytelling experience" by "bringing together national and local news coverage, music, poetry and visual projections on a selected topic. NPR Presents programs start out as live events and are then available for download on the NPR website."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://magazine.longwood.edu/article/the-arts-reimagined/|title=The Arts, Reimagined|website=Longwood Magazine|language=en-us|access-date=2016-03-30}}</ref> In January 2015, Dr. Etwaroo was appointed as the Executive Director for the Center for Arts and Culture at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration, but continues to contribute to NPR.
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 directs the iconic Billy Holiday Theater, Youth Arts Academy, Skylight Gallery and Restoration Plaza’s Presenting Program
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