Soldanela — Notes From a Native Daughter

I am a cross-sector communication and production strategist, serving at the intersection of arts, culture, and education,

My earned practice stands with over 300 project works as performer, publicist, and/or producer for small and large commissions in dance, concert/tours, theater, musical theater, film, television, publishing, special events, education, in arenas, community centers, educational institutions, and historic concert halls with emerging, established, and world-renowned figures.

I hold a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College with a concentration in Dance and, a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University.

“Collectively, the talks and essays that appear here are but one section of a huge kaleidoscope that sparkles the wealth of LatinA/o/x cultural life, and right in that same space there’s the larger realm of the pan-American experience.”

A few years back a podcast challenge sparked me to talk with all the creative people I knew, and sit and listen to them on their creative journeys.

In some way, these profiles reflect a wealth of culture and intermix that is broader than one particular category, what I see as the Pan-American experience.

notes (nfand-native from a native daughter) is borrowed from a chapter title in Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

“these voices need to be shared because the climate is calling on them, plain and simple.”

Bylines and highlights

Self-published | View for Death

Baryshnikov Arts Center BAC Stories | Alexa Rivera

Huffington Post | The Ones Who Don’t Stay / Los que no se quedan

PBS Latino Americans | Stamped by Our Heritage

Women in Jazz South Florida | Radha Botofasina | Harpist musician

EnFOCO | Betty Pérez “BP” Cole - Forthcoming 12/2021

Director of Communication Hostos Community College, City University of New York.

Fixer/Community Organizer, “After Maria,” (Dir. Nadia Hallgren), Netflix

National Publicity Team + Premiere Production Captain, “El Cantante”

Development Producer and National Publicity Team, “Celia Cruz: The Musical”

Tour Publicist, Silvio Rodriguez U.S. tour

Industry publicist: Latin Grammys®, Tribeca Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, ASCAP Awards, MUSA Awards.

2021 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Advocacy Institute

2020 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Leadership Institute Fellow

2020 Lo Mejor de Nuestra Comunidad Award recipient, Comité Noviembre

2018 Recipient of “El Diario La Prensa” Mujer Destacada award

Board Chair, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.

Languages | Spanish and English: native fluency speaking, reading, and writing. Knowledge of Latin American vernaculars.