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teaching artist, writer, facilitator, producer

DAVID GALLEGOS is a facilitator, health educator, producer, gay and lesbian rights advocate, and teaching artist. As a producer and manager he has worked on a wide range of video documentary projects and was the Production Director for Memorylines, a large-scale, five-month long community dialogue performance project commissioned by The Santa Fe Opera and The Lensic Performing Arts Center. He worked as the human resources director for Sounds True Publishing, an event planner, a coordinator for health and wellness conferences, and has been a health educator with the Boulder County Aids Project and many other organizations.

As an artist, Gallegos is a trained dancer and creative writer. He coordinated the Alameda Middle School component of Memorylines where he worked with middle school students creating original work that addressed challenging issues in their lives. He also facilitated the Memorylines collaboration with seniors at Santa Fe Cares nursing home.

Gallegos is devoted to integrating health and wellness topics into all of his community work. Currently Gallegos is the project director for Littleglobe's Common Ground: Cuba/Torreon/Ojo Encino project,and is working on the development of a large-scale Littleglobe health and arts initiative.

*photo by chris sturgis