Jadele McPherson
Performance artist, singer, actress, scholar, and cultural organizer

"Jadele McPherson, (MA UChicago) is a performance artist, singer, actress, scholar, and cultural organizer. McPherson has presented performance & scholarship at the ADRSA and KOSANBA Conferences at Harvard University (2013). She was in the original cast of PARTY PEOPLE at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2012 season and an ensemble member of UNIVERSES. After completing the EMERGENYC program at NYU her final performance was entitled WaterRain using altar space transformation, song and movement to bring a sound narrative alive about the effects of the Japanese tsunami on the earth which she impersonates using AfroCuban orishas, or divine expressions of natural elements. Infusing AfroCuban genres into interdisciplinary arts projects, as a teacher and performer she is committed to AfroLatin@ arts education, community building, and traditional arts as a healing  response to trauma and division in multicultural communities."