World Up sponsors a Women in Hip Hop Panel
The discussion will revolve around: How is hip hop helping or hurting international roles of women? Different cultures see and define different roles, how has the new strength and popularity of hip hop changed or held those roles back? International artists, activists, and educators will weigh in for some very interesting dialogue.
Moderator: Journalist Victoria Hart Glavin knows the hip-hop scene. Music. People. Events. The latest gossip. She’s been in the scene since 1981. Her knowledge of the hip- hop world is evident when reading her articles and interviews. Victoria currently resides in the Pacific Northwest and is in the process of writing two books.
Panelists:
Martha Diaz is an educator, organizer and filmmaker with a decade of media production experience. She has a B.A. in Communication with a minor in Television and Film Production from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Diaz is the founder and visionary of The Hip-Hop Association.
Monifa Bandele is the Executive Director of Change the Game, a hip hop media and marketing organization dedicated to peace and justice. She is a 2004 recipient of the Ford Foundation Leaders for a Changing World Award, the 2005 Essence Women Who Shape the World Award, and the 2006 Louis E Burnham Award. Monifa is the former Executive Director of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, a national human rights and racial justice organization, during her tenure was a 2000 recipient of the prestigious Union Square Award. Monifa is a co- founder of the Black August Hip Hop Project, an international activist/artist alliance, with ties in Cuba, South Africa, and Brazil.
Oliva Prendes Riveron , Cuban Female MC with Krudas CubensiKrudas Cubensi are three Cuban women hip hop artists, visual artists and street theater performers recently immigrated from Havana. The members of the group are two sisters Odaymara and Odalys Cuesta, and Olivia Prendes. They started performing in 1996 as the street theater group Cubensi, and as a hip hop group Krudas Cubensi since 1999.
PattyDukes is a an Emcee, Actress, Writer & Filmmaker from the South Bronx. She has performed in Till Da Break of Dawn, written and directed by Obie award winning actor/playwright Danny Hoch at The Public Theater. She has also performed in The Apollo Theater Sound Stage Festival and The Hip Hop Theater Festival. PattyDukes teaches emceeing, poetry and theater to junior high and high school students. She has traveled the country speaking and performing at schools, community centers and juvenile detention centers. As a published writer her words have graced the pages of Urban Latino, The Ave & Fuego Magazine. Her poetry and rhymes appear in Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees and in The Sistahood: On The Mic. PattyDukes just finished performing in the 2007 Latina Poets Festival at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Directed and Produced by Scarfaces’ mother – Miriam Colon-Valle (aka Mama Montana) along side La Bruja, Mariposa, Prisionera, & Sandra Maria Esteves. PattyDukes is currently working on her debut album.
