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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Amanda Morgan
Description: Amanda Morgan is in the corps of the prestigious Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) based in Seattle. PNB is one of the largest and best-regarded companies in the United States with a deep commitment to racial diversity. Although people of color comprise 26 percent of its dancers, Morgan is its only black female ballet dancer—add to that her height of five foot ten inches, and you have someone who stands out rather than fits in.  But Morgan decided long ago that “if you don’t see what you want to see around you, create it." And so she has. Finding herself...