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Biography:
Emma Rosenthal is the founder and Executive Director of The Writing Empowerment Project and Executive Producer and founder
of ˇCafé Intifada! She is an educator, artists, writer and human rights activist living in Southern California. As a producer
of arts and literary events she currently hosts the literary series; Voices for Peace and Social Justice and produces cultural
programs through ˇCafé Intifadaˇ to raise funds for cultural programs in Palestine. She holds teaching credentials in California
and Massachusetts. Her emphasis has been in the areas of bilingual and multicultural education. Her experience as a grassroots
organizer, political essayist and speaker has been life long and has included many progressive causes. She always seeks to
combine art, activism, education and grassroots mobilization. She has been a featured poet and speaker throughout Southern
California at a variety of venues and programs including; Highways Performance Space, The Autry Museum, Barnes and Nobel,
Poetic License, Borders/Pasadena, Beyond Baroque, Freedom Fries Follies (a fundraiser for The Center for the Study of Political
Graphics), KPFK, Arts in Action and Hyperpoets. Her work has appeared in several publications including Lilith Magazine, The
Pasadena Star News, The San Gabriel Tribune, The San Gabriel Valley Quarterly, LoudMouth Magazine (CSLA) and Coloring Book;
An Eclectic Anthology of Multicultural Writers (Rattlecat Press 2003)
Speaking Engagements Poetry and Spoken Word:
Emma Rosenthal is available to speak on a variety of issues: education, human rights, U.S. foreign policy, Middle East
Politics, American Jewish Politics, Racism (including anti-Semitism), gender equity, grassroots organizing, the arts and social
transformation and multiculturalism.
She is also available as a featured poet/spoken word artist at poetry readings and cultural programs. Her poetry is impassioned,
sensual, political, life affirming and powerful. In her writing she explores the use of art and literary expression to elicit
an ethos more compelling than dogma and ideological discourse, providing new paradigms for community, communion, connection
and human transformation.
Production Work:
Emma Rosenthal is a producer of arts and literary events and is in contact with a variety of artists and activists. In
addition to her own programs, she can assist in arts and educational program formation.
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