Alyssa Sileo (Gloucester County Institute of Technology Drama Class of 2018) is the Public Relations Officer of Thespian Troupe 5480 and self-proclaimed “Drama Mama” of every GCIT Drama student. She is the founder of the international theatre activism and education initiative “The Laramie Project” Project, which unites and catalyzes productions and readings of the acclaimed Tectonic Theater Project play to honor of recent hate crime victims. Alyssa is humbled to serve as the 2017 Spirit of Matthew Shepard Award and a Youth Ambassador for the Matthew Shepard Foundation and Arts Ed Now. She is a prospective Theatre Arts major who will study performance, playwriting, and dramaturgy, and aims to work an advocacy platform into every piece of the theatre catalogue.
Arts Ed NJ is a collective impact coalition of statewide partners that works to ensure that all New Jersey Prek-12 public school students participate in a high quality, sequential, equitable arts education that celebrates diverse lived experience and artistic expression and prepares the creative leaders of tomorrow.
Arts education for every child, every day, every year.