Please join us in welcoming Yesenia Perez, our new summer intern! We asked her a few “get-to-know-you” questions — see what she had to say!
Yesenia Perez, Education & Media Intern (through the Getty Foundation’s Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program)
Briefly introduce yourself and explain your new position at P.S. ARTS.
My name is Yesenia and I am the Getty Education & Media Intern this summer at P.S. ARTS. I am a senior Education and Sociology double major at Vassar College. I will be drawing on my background in teaching to translate and further develop accessible P.S. ARTS To-Go plans and Family Art Night projects.
What book is currently on your nightstand?
Ishmael by David Quinn was my last interesting read but I’m currently re-reading Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurti
What is currently the most played song on your iPod?
I can listen to the entirety of the Ego Death album by The Internet or Awaken, My Love! by Childish Gambino, but Mar (Lo Que Siento) by Bomba Estéreo seems to fit any mood I’m feeling so I listen to it a lot!
Where is your favorite place to view or take part in art in Los Angeles?
I love performance art – as a writer myself, I’m always looking to support friends and local artists of color performing spoken word and theater.
What famous person, either dead or alive, would you choose to take out for coffee?
I always have a tough time answering this type of question, hmmm – right now, I would say I’d be interested in sitting down with María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, the first indigenous woman running for president in Mexico.
