Julio Cotto on Clubhouse

Bio

Folklorist and cultural worker, PRFDance and Cultural Center
Nonprofit leader, National Hispanic Institiute (NHI)
Humanities instructor, ACC

over 20 years working with youth, bomba dad, dance dad, husband, media dabbler, camp/conference designer, Guatemalan/Puerto Rican married to a Mexican...we eat well and dance often.

-Trustee, Puerto Rican Cultural Center
-Senior Vice President, National Hispanic Institute
-Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Humanities, Austin Community College
-Co-founder and former Executive Director, Kingsbridge Innovative Design Charter School, Bronx, NY
-former Director of Community Initiatives, Junior Achievement of New York

Native of Lancaster, PA
Resident of Austin, TX
Former Boston undergraduate
Former Bronx-based young professional

Musician of all Puerto Rican forms (and a few others) including voice, barril, cua, maraca, guitarra, cuatro (sorta), pandereta, timbales, bongo, timbas

Centering Original Peoples and African heritage in the humanities as well as expanding conversations about the diaspora

Cofounder of one of (if not) the shortest lived charter school in the Bronx, fought powers I was too naive to see or understand in opening and closing Kingsbridge Innovative Design Charter School from 2010-2011

Was honored to write the intro for Ernesto Nieto’s “Third Reality Revealed” and had a few nonfiction pieces published...I yearn for more opportunities to write and the discipline to do it.

Pastor’s kid, nephew, and grandson. Quite knowledgeable of the Protestant and Evangelical worlds and have been immersed through marriage in the Mexican Catholic tradition...a fuerzas.

Alumnus of J.P. McCaskey High School, Boston University, and St. Edward’s University