Cultural Curator

SSF coincides with WomenArts’ international holiday SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now Day). WomenArts has recognized the Spoken Soul Festival – SWAN Day Miami as one of the top five SWAN events worldwide because the festival is one of the largest SWAN events and one of the most effective in training and supporting the participating women artists. Since its launch in March 2008, the festival has been awarded proclamations from the City of Miami Beach, Miami Dade County and the City of Miami as well as a City Of Miami special City Seal.  Featured artists have been commissioned or featured for shows during Art Basel – Miami, Gibson Guitar Showroom, New York Fashion Week, and Gen Art’s Fresh Faces Miami.

Deborah was awarded the prestigious TAFARI Award 2013 for her work with women artists alongside the Mayor of Miami Beach Matti Herrera Bower and Founder of the First Modeling Agency in Miami Michele Pommier. In 2014 she was nominated for the Troy Poet Lewis Community Outreach Award by the National Poetry Awards. She has and continues to do Cultural Curating by cultivating impactful community programming and castings for partners such as P.A.T.H, ICA Miami, CCE Miami, PhilanthroFest, Women’s International Film Festival, The Arsht Center, Little Haiti Cultural Complex,Exile Books with De La Cruz Collection, and The Miami Design District Performance Series. Wanting to lead by example, Deborah still continues to create and bare her poetic soul.