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Nelson on the set for CSFs "Much Ado About Nothing" As a theatre and English double major, Tamarra Nelson (BA ’18) discovered her passion for directing at the University of Denver. Now, Nelson works as the tour manager with the Shakespeare and Violence Prevention Program, a subsection of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) Education Department. In this program, actors travel to schools, perform plays and facilitate workshops based on up-to-date violence-prevention research. “It’s ce...

Ready to step down from at this point in time. >> kristin, switching gears to the presidents trip on monday, what was it about minneapolis -- its a great thing obviously that theyre making sort of the outside game. we know thats been part of the strategy, but what about it specifically in minneapolis? >> reporter: right. well, its no mistake that the president is traveling to minneapolis because law enforcement officials there have actually started to enact some of the measures that president ob...

Cease-fire, a violence prevention program, which is basically where we have ex-gang members and people that are very ensconced still in the community and have community ties to come into the hospital basically has part of the trauma team, tempt to prevent recidivism and retaliation and act as violence interrupters to defuse the situation. thats not the only answer but certainly its programs with out of the box thinking like that that clearly is the start because the conventional, conservative wa...