A Profile: Soap Box Series - Leah Goodwin
In January of 2023, Leah Goodwin was appointed by California’s Governor Newsom to the California Arts Council. With her diverse background in both business and the arts, Leah Goodwin is…
Leah Goodwin - Poetry Soap Box Series
In January of 2023, Leah Goodwin was appointed by California’s Governor Newsom to the California Arts Council. With her diverse background in both business and the arts, Leah Goodwin is the President and CEO of Leah Goodwin Creations - Where Art and Soul Meet.
18 views Feb 24, 2021 In the tradition of the SoapBox orators of the women’s movement, labor movement, and civil rights movement, 16 artists from San Diego participated in Art Produce's Poetry Soap Box Series in early December 2020. The election had ended, the quarantine orders had lifted somewhat, then tightened the next day. Our community came out of quarantine, briefly, to share their life stories through poetry.
In 2015, Leah created the San Diego Experience of the Civil Rights Movement, an exhibition of banners which has been displayed in many venues around San Diego. The display contains a series of panels that acknowledges the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well as honors San Diego’s leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.
Leah is an accomplished and published poet and writer, including significant contributions to the book by Merryl Goldberg entitled, “Teaching English Language Learners through the Arts.” Her recent honors include receiving a 2017 MOXIE Award from MOXIE Theatre for being a Woman of Grit and Determination and being one of the selected featured women in the “Beautiful, Brilliant and Brave: A Celebration of Black Women” exhibit for her work in arts and culture.
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