Corey Ruzicano (she/her/hers) is a writer and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. Whether writing, producing, teaching or riding the subway she seeks to empower voices and stories that encourage empathy. As a creative producer she has worked with P Carl and David Dower at Arts Emerson, Jeanine Tesori at New York City Center and Siena Music, Diana Oh, Victor Cervantes Jr. and Lloyd Suh at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and The Lark. As a writer her poetry and arts journalism can be found on HowlRound, Stage & Candor where she was Editor in Chief and in countless poetry journals. As an educator she has run programs that use arts to teach leadership and emotional intelligence for 826NYC, A BroaderWay, Subway Moon, Second Stage, The National High School Institute, Everytown for Gun Safety, Words on White, and her collective, C.Lab, where she consults on and builds programs for non-profits, corporations, schools, and community centers that make spaces that democratize creativity. She assists Claudia Rankine, poet, playwright and Yale University professor and founder of the Racial Imaginary. She currently resides in New York, NY and runs the Genius Program at Workshop Middle School. With all her work, she believes expression belongs to all of us and is necessary to evolution.
