Black Diaspora: Suzen Baraka 🌟 🗓: Oct 10, 2:00 PM EDT 📍: Online Emmy Award-winning poet and SAG-AFTRA actor Suzen Baraka left her career in investment banking in 2018 to train at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting Conservatory. As an American actress and woman of Black and Korean descent, Suzen prays her work serves as a bridge reimagined 🌀⬇️⬇️ Suzen starred in Everlasting, winner of the Viewer's Choice Award at the 2020 Cannes Short Film Festival, and won a regional Emmy for VOTE, a lyrical short later published in Kevin Powell's literary anthology!! Most recently, Suzen co-starred on HBOMax’s The Other Two and CBS’ Blue Bloods. She’s the writer and face of Theraflu’s Right to Recover Campaign, which advocates for women’s right to paid sick leave. Suzen wrapped lead and supporting roles in My Asian, Things That Remain, Two Frozen Turkeys, If You See Something, and Against Protocol. !!️Black Diaspora events are open to a Black- or Afro-Latinx-identifying audience only Don't miss Black Diaspora's FREE events this month—check out what's coming up below and be sure to RSVP by visiting: gibneydance.org/blackdiaspora