celestefd

I'm a journalist and community arts activist, and I write a blog called Do-Gooder on MOLI (http://www.moli.com/do-gooder). I'm always looking for stories about people making a difference anywhere in the world. It that's you or someone you now, please drop me a line. I'd love to talk with you.

I also run a communty-focused magazine about politics and culture in Miami, called Category305 (http://www.category305.com). We work with policy anaylsts, law students, creative writing students, college and high school students, and youth in crisis to cover our community at the grassroots. We are social entrepreneurs who aim to make our community a better place both through what we write about and through the way we do business.

I believe that media and the arts are essential to creating better communities, both as means for exposing social issues and for the sheer pleasure of communication, movement, and entertainment. I've taught expressive arts to women in prison through a wonderful program in Florida called Artspring (http://www.artspring.org) and am now working on a project with teens at the Miami Bridge Youth Crisis shelter.

Miami has a large community of socially conscious artists, and we're getting to know each other under the umbrella of a group called Soul of Miami. With one of my favorite companies, Camposition Hybrid Theater Works (http://www.camposition.org), I've played the founding mother of Miami, Julia Tuttle, and I'm working on large-scale, kind of insane, community work called Speed Freak, that involves a motorcycle orchestra and a motorcycle ballet.