DR. SHONDRIKA MOSS-BOULDIN

Dr. Shondrika Moss-Bouldin is the co-founder of Soulploitation Creative Works, LLC (www.scworks.tv), a multi-media production company based out of Atlanta and Los Angeles. She has earned all of her degrees from Northwestern University (B.A., M.A., PhD) in Performance. Currently, she works as the Director of Development for Be the Bridge, a non-profit that focuses or racial equity, healing, and reconciliation and serves as the President of the Georgia Grant Professionals Association. A multi-degreed professional Development Expert, Project Developer, Collaborator, Trainer, Supervisor, Writer, Facilitator, and Collaborator with a broad range of expertise in fundraising, budgeting, project management, and grant writing. In the past three years, she has raised over 7 million dollars in grant funding. Some of her artistic accomplishments include developing and implementing the August Wilson competition for Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company, creating and offering the dance therapy program, Heal Sista Heal (www.healsistaheal.com), a platform that was designed to center Black women with healing artistic practices as an essential part of their mental health. She is a proud member of The Lincoln Center's Director's Lab and she directs and choreographs across the country. Some of her previous artistic and consultant work has been with Disney Theatrical Productions, The Kennedy Center, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company, Hattiloo Theatre, Horizon Theatre, Creative Arts Team, Cobb, Fayette, Fulton, and Atlanta Public Schools, Chicago Shakespeare, The Children's Theatre of Charlotte, Georgia Council for the Arts, The National Black Arts Festival, and The National Black Theatre Festival. Dr. Moss-Bouldin also specializes in consulting, professional speaking, acting workshops and private coaching. She is editing and writing the upcoming book: Staging Lydia: Contextualizing the African American experience through the the lens of Art and Scholarship (Northwestern Press) and writing the book, Troublemaker: An Artist's Journey in Disrupting Paradigms and Creating Safe Spaces in Performance Practice.