Carolene Cabrera King is an educator, writer, artist, and breathwork facilitator committed to the deep learning and unlearning we must do to build a world of liberation. In her work with Forged Ed, an organization that supports educators as they build schools where students of color thrive, Carolene designs and facilitates professional development on equity for educators across the country. She is an alumna of the year-long Antiracist Teacher’s Cohort with Joe Truss, and she has been a featured teacher speaker at the Dismantling White Supremacy in Schools Conference. Carolene graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a double major in Theatre and Literature/Writing. From there, she completed a Master’s in Education at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, with a focus on teacher leadership, studying how teachers can cultivate environments that help students learn empathy.
In 2013, Carolene was a founding teacher and Literacy Coach at El Dorado New Tech High School, creating the vision and mission of the school with 4 other teachers. Following her time with New Tech, she returned to California where she taught 9th grade and coached the improv team at High Tech High North County for a decade. She went on to New York University to complete a second Master’s in Art, Activism, & Community Practice where her thesis work focused on rights of the Indigenous Lumad People in the Philippines, the country where her parents immigrated to the United States from, in collaboration with the New York Committee of Human Rights in the Philippines. She is the recipient of the 2013 Teacher Excellence Award in El Dorado, Arkansas, and the recipient of the 2018 Innovative Use of Technology in the Classroom award. She is the proud mother to Kayda Pauline King, and proud partner to magician Skyler King.
Here are a couple cool links in my life:
Interview with Broadway World: https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/Interview-Carolene-Joy-Cabrera-King-Shows-TOO-MUCH-SKIN-in-SheLA-Summer-Theatre-Festival-20220702?fbclid=IwAR168yapakh0Lq-JFfuJm8ExLRfyju6KPUl6D-fr9_Ut8TBWYhhDeeHatJ4
My High Tech High digital portfolio that houses many projects I facilitated: https://www.misscarolcabrera.com/
These are other places I currently work for, and I’m not sure if it makes sense for them to be in the bio:
Website for Forged Ed (Equity trainings): https://forgeded.com/
Revelation Breathwork (Somatic work- Breathwork): https://www.revelationbreathwork.com/
