JULIAN THOMAS is a poet, acting teacher, and youth mentor bornand raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With deep family history in East Harlem,where he now teaches and resides, Julian's Afro-Caribbean roots traceback to Sierra Leone, Grenada, and Honduras.Gravitating toward acting from an early age, Julian Thomas is a graduateof the renown theatre program at Northwestern University and hasperformed his original poetry on outlets coast to coast, including onthe St. Louis NBC news, as well as Al Sharpton's National Action Network.Along with a lengthy Shakespeare career playing roles such as Othello,King Lear, and Theseus in Midsummer Night's Dream, Julian hasnarrated over 20 audiobooks in fiction and non-fiction.Among these include "Of Blood and Sweat; Black Lives and the Makingof White Power and Wealth" by Clyde W. Ford; "Hack Your Bureaucracy:Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team" by ObamaAdministration White House staff Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai, andEtan Thomas's "We Matter; Athletes and Activism," a collection ofessays and interviews exploring the social justice landscape of today.Read more about this authorRead less about this author