Naomi Ishisaka
Bio:
Naomi Ishisaka is a longtime journalist, photographer, graphic designer, and communications specialist with a particular emphasis on racial equity and social justice. She served as editor-in-chief of the award-winning ColorsNW Magazine, a monthly magazine focusing on communities of color in the Northwest. Ishisaka is a Seattle native and worked at several Puget Sound newspapers, including The Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The News Tribune, and the Bremerton Sun.
She was an Institute for Justice and Journalism Fellow studying immigration and border issues and traveled throughout Europe as a Marshall Memorial Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Through journalism and photography, Ishisaka documents and amplifies social justice movements and events. Her documentary photography of the Seattle Black Lives Matter movement is featured in a number of shows and galleries. naomiishisaka.com @naomiishisaka
Opportunities for women of color are as rare in U.S. theater as they are in Hollywood. But one regional theater is defying the odds with a festival devoted to works by Black women.