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Katherine Bahena-Benitez (they/them/she) is a Queer Mexican Indigenous actor, writer, dancer and model. Katherine is bicoastal with New York and California. Katherine studied at CSUS and has had the pleasure of performing and training with the American Conservatory Theater, 24 Hour Plays, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, La Mama Experimental Theater Club and Broadway Advocacy Coalition at Columbia University. Katherine has had their poems American Dream, La Morena, and Yo Ya No Rezo with Museum Guild and has been featured in Vogue and Apostrophes Digital Magazine De La Tierra. Katherine is a Miranda Family Fellow, a LORT/ASPIRE Fellow, EmergeNYC Artist and recipient of the John Cauble Emerging Arts Leader Award. Katherine is a Teaching Artist with Girl Be Heard and is part of a film titled “El Remedio” which will premier in 2024. Katherine says, “Con Mucho Amor y Cariño I do this for our Gente, I do this for us.”