Rachel Kara Perez is an award-winning singer, theatre performer and theatre teaching artist based in New York City. As a teaching artist, she is involved with a number of organizations, using theatre, music, and dance to educate and uplift New York City and immigrant youth. Rachel Kara’s musical repertoire ranges from classical to Afro-Cuban Jazz, and she has appeared as a featured vocalist in concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Out Of Doors, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Rachel Kara views teaching as her activism, and the arts as an invaluable social justice tool to build community, promote critical thinking, and, ultimately, to foster empathy.
Join us, as we chat up challenging situations in performing, the importance of making adopted children realize their worth, violent radicalism vs non-violent protests, activism vs symbolism, what defunding the police means to her, racism and hatred being taught and not born, cultural differences that separate us, critical thinking that brings us together, her love for playwirghts like Susan Lori Parks, the show and performance that changed her life, and more!
