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and has served as music director for numerous
opera and musical productions. He recently
performed as piano soloist with the Pittsburgh
Symphony and the Sacramento Philharmonic
and has performed as a keyboardist with
many ensembles around Pittsburgh. He was
recently featured on radio stations throughout
Brazil accompanying baritone Igor Viera.
Shane Moreman
Shane Moreman is a professor and performer
intrigued with the art of everyday life. More
specifically, he is interested in how ethnic and
racial identity is symbolically performed to
achieve authenticity. He was born and raised
in the borderlands of South Texas and is half
White and half Latino. As such, his research
publications and performance art concern
the split-subjectivities of identity. His Ph.D in
communication was earned at the University
of South Florida. His communication research
focuses on how race is communicated (verbally
and physically) and ways to help heal the hurt
of racism. Currently, he is assistant professor of
communication at California State University,
Fresno. He has lived in Hilo, Hawaii; Paris, France;
Mexico City, Mexico; and Beijing, China.
Tatiana Reinoza
Tatiana Reinoza is an artist and independent
curator working in Sacramento, California. Born
in El Salvador, a country ravaged by a 12-year
civil war, Reinoza became aware at an early
age of the human cost of war. She migrated to
the United States with her mother at the age of
six. Her life has always been in constant motion,
as she has lived in New York, San Salvador,
San Francisco, and Sacramento. She is very
interested in the migrant/immigrant experience
as well as in the advocacy of social responsibility
in art. She had the wonderful opportunity
of working with the Chicano art community
in Sacramento through La Raza Galeria
Posada. She also interned for two years with
the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
under the mentorship of local Royal Chicano Air
Force (RCAF) muralist Juanishi V. Orosco. In 2004,
Reinoza received her Bachelor of Arts in art studio
from California State University, Sacramento,
where she co-founded the Women’s Art Forum.
Through her leadership and initiative, she has
coordinated visiting artist lectures, curated art
exhibits, and organized workshops for youth.
The current focus of her curatorial work is to
promote, exhibit, and document the contributions
of contemporary Latino artists in the U.S.
She has exhibited and served as a guest curator
at several local art galleries in Sacramento.
Orit Sarfaty
Orit Sarfaty is the director of community relations
at Seattle Center, the region’s premier
entertainment and cultural venue spanning
the arts, sports, and open space. In her
capacity, she works to integrate the arts with
the needs of the population that Seattle
Center serves. Sarfaty focused on the arts
in an urban setting as a master’s student in
urban planning at the University of Washington.
Before working at Seattle Center, she was
involved in strategic planning at the Seattle
Art Museum and WNET-Channel 13 in New
York. She graduated from Harvard University
with a focus on race relations and sociology.
Shawna Shandiin Sunrise
Shawna Shandiin Sunrise was raised as a
fifth-generation Diné weaver through the
matrilineage of her mother. She learned all
aspects of creating through both of her parents—weaving
from her mother, who is Navajo
(Diné), and traditional performance/jewelry
from her father, who was Santo Domingo Pueblo.
Shandiin Sunrise is also a filmmaker, producer,
and director. She is a graduate of the Institute
of American Indian Arts and the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied
film/video and multimedia installations. She is an
active board member for the Arts Board for the
city of Albuquerque and Public Access Channel
27. Currently, she produces a cable access TV
show in Albuquerque called NativeZine. The
show is a visual mini-magazine that promotes
the creative movement of art, music, and performance
through Native eyes. With NativeZine,
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