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BIPOC Staff Advocate

Trenda is a body-centered and collaborative playwright, director, actor, and consultant. She currently serves as WAM’s BIPOC Staff Advocate and previously stewarded the BIPOC ensemble and performed in Talya Kingston’s play “Campus Unrest.” Committed to using theatre to raise awareness, question patterns, inspire action, and build community, Trenda integrates artistic expression with nuanced identity exploration. Previous credits include “Voices Carry” (Playwright and facilitator), “Gasping Whiteness” (co-director, actor), “Independent: The Heroin Project” (actor), “Breastless” (actor), “Far Reaches” (actor) “When Last We Flew” (director) and the film “Gale and the Fish” (actor). Additionally her play “When the System Swallows you” and it’s accompanying workshop has been hosted by Franklin County Jail, Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center, and Voices From Inside. Trenda is the Co-Chair of GLSEN MA Board of Directors, and has served as chair of the Western Massachusetts Fall Youth Conference (2017,2018,2019). Her more recent endeavors include becoming a worker-owner of The Compost Co-operative Inc., a Massachusetts licensed REALTOR®️ with Coldwell Banker Community Realtors, and Founder of Willow Permanent Real Estate Cooperative LLC. Trenda is excited to be integrating her theatre experience with racial, social, and housing justice efforts. To learn more about Trenda’s work visit  linktr.ee/whatistrendaupto