A native New Yorker, Becca can be found dancing, humming, and speaking Spanglish on a daily basis. A passionate performer and scholar with a commitment to social justice, she spends her time working in development for Dance Place in Washington, DC volunteering with local community organizing groups in DC, and unpacking the intersections between sociopolitical oppression and the transformational capacity inherent in creative, interpersonal connection. She has studied in Mexico and Argentina, discovering a hunger to immerse herself in community-building through the arts.
Dance Place
Washington, DC
Development and Youth Programming Assistant
September ‘16- Present
Writes grant proposals and generates marketing materials (including an online blog) for community dance center
Assists with curriculum planning & management of Afterschool program
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Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics
New York, NY
Administrative Assistant Summer 2016
I translated program texts from Spanish-English for an international performance art festival (“Encuentro”) and aided with financial, social media, and communications tasks for this arts non-profit’s events and publications.
Radio Ambulante, Language Education Assistant
​2015-2016
I devised a new Spanish language curriculum using listening-centered pedagogy, in collaboration with podcast-generating organization Radio Ambulante and Oberlin College professor Barbara Sawhill. I facilitated group conversation sessions in Spanish on a range of sociopolitical and cultural topics, and provided administrative and classroom support.
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Foresight Design Initiative
January, 2015​
At this Chicago-based sustainability consulting non-profit, I generated a curriculum for a youth summer research program by interviewing leaders in Northeast Ohio who could be valuable role models for students. I also executed research on social, environmental and economic sustainability in the region to prepare teaching materials for the program.
Farm and Wilderness Camps
​Summer, 2013
At this overnight summer camp, I developed skills for mentoring 9-14- year-olds by leading music, ceramics, woodworking, and cooking activities. I led a week-long outdoor back-packing trip, led social justice workshops and mediated complex situations amongst campers and counselors from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.
Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio
Class of 2016
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I majored in Comparative Literature and minored in Hispanic Studies. Notable courses include: Acting 1 &2; Dancing Latinx America; Urban Political Ecology; Contact Improvisation; Advanced Contemporary Dance; Intro to Africana Studies; Music, Orality and Literature; Latinx Oral Histories; 20th Century Latin American Literature
La Universidad Nacional de las Artes
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spring, 2015
I spent a semester studying the sociocultural history of art, oral Spanish skills, expresión corporal, community building through dance improvisation and choreography, and urban sociology.
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