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Rhodessa Jones
Rhodessa Jones is an actor, teacher, singer and writer who is the co-artistic director of the San Francisco-based theatre company Cultural Odyssey (1979) and the founding director of the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women (1989), which brings performance workshops to incarcerated women and women living with HIV. She is a recipient of two fellowships: the 2021 Pew Center for Arts and Heritage and the 2017 Montgomery Fellows Program. She is a US Embassy Arts Envoy and teaches at universities and institutions internationally. Her current projects include working with the UC San Francisco Medical School, impacting HIV health outcomes for women. Her work integrates the dynamics of race, health and restorative justice across several disciplines.