Mira Weisenthal, an alum of the Organizational Change Management program at Milano, recently attended the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon where she looked at the relationship between social justice and comedy. Although the annual festival is historically diverse and offers a broad range of comedic talent, this was the first year the festival offered all-black and all-queer showcases, presented by comics Baron Vaughn and James Adomian, respectively. An all-female showcase (All Jane, No Dick), in its second year, also ran two of the four days at the festival.Check out Mira’s article A Bridgetown to Social Justice on The Comic’s Comic website.
Mira is a recent alum of the Organizational Change Management program at Milano. After completing an undergraduate degree in Anthropology, Mira moved to New York and quickly became interested in the alternative comedy scene here. A few years later, after completing a two-year stint in Cambodia with the Peace Corps, Mira returned to New York with a renewed appreciation for the honesty and self-awareness her favorite comics brought to the stage. The theme of “awareness” has tied together well with Mira‘s most recent academic work in coaching and process consultation, and she anticipates pursuing the interest further as an independent contributor to the Comic’s Comic blog.
