Maisha Baton - Brief Biography
Maisha Baton is a poet, playwright and historian, born in Pennsylvania and currently residing in Albuquerque, NM. She received her masters degree in existential psychology from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA and her doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught numerous courses on the black experience at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of New Mexico.
Her plays MITOTE and KATE’S SISTER, which are based on the history of blacks in the west, have been developed and performed in New York and North Carolina by Yaffe Productions of New York; Crossroads Theater Co. Of New Jersey; at the New Group Theater Co of Seattle; the Jubilee Theater of Fort Worth Texas; Borderlands Theater Co. of Tucson, Arizona and in Detroit, MI. at the Detroit Repertory Theatre.
Dr. Baton has held lectures and seminars on “Black History In New Mexico and Black Women in Western Frontier History. Her publications in these areas include; ‘Black Women in New Mexico History,’ written for the Albuquerque Museum; ‘ Blackdom, N.M. in The Context of the Black Colonization Movement’ written for the New Mexico Historical Preservation Society and “the ‘Afro-Mexican in New Spain: Roots of Black New Mexico History.”
She has also served as a consultant for the KNME TV’s 1997 production "Blackdom" a 30 minute video that tells the story of Blackdom, N.M. and for “Albuquerque’s People of the Heart.” Her oral history productions Do Remember Me and Do Remember Me 2,contain two one-hour cd’s of edited audio oral interviews from black New Mexico seniors along with a companion booklet of background information on the history of New Mexico.
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