About Me
Emily Waters is a Brooklyn-based poet, actor, and community educator focusing on peer led education in progressive environments. She is a facilitator of Harriet’s Apothecary, an inter-generational healing village led by the brilliance and wisdom of Black Cis Women, Queer and Trans healers, artists, health professionals, magicians, activists and ancestors. As a cast member, playwright, and teaching artist she has assisted writing curriculum, taught intensive theater programs for high school students, and facilitated writing workshops at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. At Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, she taught DJ, vocal, and songwriting classes. As a Youth Organizer at Girls for Gender Equity, she was featured in the documentary, “Anita Hill: Speaking Truth to Power,” organized marches and meetings about sexual harassment leading to participation on United Nations Status of Women Panel, and was a three-time guest on MSNBC show Melissa Harris-Perry.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself.
And that's political, in its most profound way.
June Jordan
And that's political, in its most profound way.
June Jordan