Summer Dawn is an Asian/Hispanic artist based in Jersey City. Her organization In Full Color, which empowers artists of color through education and the arts, has received two commendations from the New Jersey State Assembly and the Jersey City Arts Council’s Performing Arts Award.
She’s also won the N.J. Governor’s Award in Arts Education, served as a theater grants panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts in 2021 and is a teaching artist for Storytelling Arts and Young Audiences of NJ & Eastern PA. She’s also an events coordinator, arts journalist, writer, actor, and activist.