Partner Event: Andrea Navedo Studio Interview
Location: Manhattan Neighborhood Network El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center
Event Website: RSVP Here
Cost: Free
October 28, 2023 @ 10:45 am – 1:30 pm EDT
Andrea Navedo Studio Interview
Latino Film Market, Manhattan Neighbood Network, and the TV Show Hablando de Cine y Mas con Arilyn presents:
Andrea Navedo Studio Interview about her new book “Our Otherness is Our Strength: Wisdom from the Boogie Down Bronx” follow by a book reading and signing.
Date: October 28, 2023 – Time: 10:45 am – Address: 175 E 104th St, New York, NY 10029
Andrea Navedo is a Bronx-born-and-raised Puerto Rican American actress best known for her role as Xiomara, a complex and genuine Latina on The CW’s series Jane the Virgin, for which she received critical acclaim. She is dedicated to various charities, including A Place Called Home in South Central Los Angeles and the Fresh Air Fund in New York City. Navedo has a passion for self-improvement, growth, and healing and, through her experiences, seeks to help those who see themselves on the outside looking in. She and her family divide their time between Toronto and Connecticut. Website: andreanavedo.com | Instagram: @andreanavedo | Twitter: @AndreaNavedo | Facebook: Andrea Navedo
Andrea Navedo didn’t get to see many positive portrayals of Latinas in the media growing up. So when she had the chance to play a starring role on Jane the Virgin, a role that cast her as a complex, flawed, and genuine Latina single mother, she jumped all over the opportunity.
In Our Otherness is Our Strength: Wisdom from the Boogie Down Bronx, she shares bits of her story of growing up in “da South Bronx—boogie down, burning”—to inspire young people who grew up like she did and who, after being counted out, still strive to succeed. Expanding on her beloved commencement address to DeWitt Clinton High School, Navedo offers the pithy, honest, and at times laugh-out-loud funny lessons she learned from surviving abusive relationships, dealing with repeated rejection, and eventually triumphing in the entertainment industry. For all who wish to take the reins on their own lives, especially in the face of hardship, trauma, discrimination, and inner doubts, Navedo’s reflections, confessions, memories, and, most of all, hard-earned lessons help us realize our “ghetto” is the breeding ground for our self-actualization—our otherness is our strength.
Purchase the book here: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506485706/Our-Otherness-Is-Our-Strength
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