An Interview
Jacqueline Lawton: What is your job for the INTERSECTIONS Festival?
KB: I am the Director of Development for the Atlas Performing Arts Center, so I help build financial support for the Atlas and its INTERSECTIONS Festival.
JL: Who are your heroes?
KB: My Dad (I know it’s a cliché, but it’s true!), the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh, and the late Samuel Mockbee, the architect/teacher who created the Rural Studio in Hale County Alabama …there are many more, but I’ll stick with the first three that came to mind!
JL: If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?
KB: I’d be in Rome at a trattoria in the Trastevere neighborhood.
JL: What is your favorite quote?
KB: Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – from the poem The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
JL: Why did you want to be a part of INTERSECTIONS?
KB: I love that INTERSECTIONS puts forward in a significant way the extraordinary and diverse artistic talent in the DC area. These are the performers I want to see and celebrate.
JL: What do you think will be cool about the festival?
KB: Seeing crowds of people of diverse races, ages and cultures enjoying the numerous Café Concerts in the Atlas’ Kogod Lobby…the innovative programming occurring on the Atlas’ stages…audience members being inspired by some of DC’s finest emerging artists
JL: Finish this sentence: I am an intersection of ...
KB: small town America girl and global citizen or apple pie and baklava.
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