Jadele McPherson

Teaching Fellow

Jadele McPherson is an artist-scholar whose research
focuses on the intersections of sound and healing, mutual aid, and
performance in Florida, Haiti and Cuba. McPherson is currently a PhD
student in the CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology Department and teaching
fellow with the Mellon Seminar for Collaborative Research and
Engagement where she is researching how sound impacts wellness, climate
change & environmental sustainability. As a founder of Lukumi Arts
(2008), an experimental theatre company focused on Afro-Cuban arts, she
wrote and produced La Sirene: Rutas de Azúcar which debuted at
JACK (2016), in the HERE Arts SANCTUARY series, and Brown University’s
Rites & Reason Theatre (2017). Jadele was an artist in the James
Baldwin tribute Can I Get a Witness? at Harlem Stage co-created by director Charlotte Brathwaite and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello, and No More Water/The Fire Next Time
at the Park Ave Armory (February 2018). Jadele was also a featured
guest on The Hoodoisie, a Chicago-based radical live news show (October
2018) and shortly after released her solo debut EP entitled “Peace &
Quiet” (2019).