KABAT, Julie

Julie Kabat has toured internationally as a composer, performer, singer, and storyteller. She has also been recognized as a pioneer in the field of arts in education. As a teaching artist, she presented many professional development workshops for teachers to explore how children can learn to read and write using strategies from the performing arts. For over forty years, she worked with students in inner city and rural schools, empowering young people to discover an authentic writer's voice while learning how to write poems, stories, and plays that they set to music and performed.