#47: DR. GINA LORING - Artist/Teacher/Poet

Dr. Gina Loring is a poet, vocalist, autoethnographer, and teaching artist. She is the Poet Laureate of the African American Policy Forum, a Master Artist Fellow through the city of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and served as Poet in Residence for UC Berkeley School of Law through the Henderson Center for Social Justice.

With a BA From Spelman College, an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and a Doctorate in Education for which she studied at USC and Clark Atlanta, she teaches in the Los Angeles Community College district.

Dr. Loring has been featured on Jane Fonda's Fire Drill Fridays, Rosario Dawson's The Assembly, 2 De La Soul albums, 2 seasons of HBS's Def Poetry, and has been commissioned to write poems for Susan and David Rockerfeller, Michalene Thomas, Greenpeace, and Quincy Jones.