Rhodessa Jones

Using playwriting, acting, and directing, she has created her own brand of social work designed to empower incarcerated women and women with HIV.

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Tina Ramirez

Tina Ramirez combined her artistic vision with years of performance and teaching experience to create and sustain the nation’s preeminent Hispanic-American dance company and school, Ballet Hispanico.

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Mary Verdi-Fletcher

Dancer Mary Verdi-Fletcher founded Cleveland-based Dancing Wheels in 1980 as the US’s first professional dance company to include dancers with and without disabilities.

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