Kevin E. Tobar Pesántez

KEVIN E. TOBAR PESÁNTEZ served as an editor for phati’tude Literary Magazine, and poetry editor for 2Leaf Press. Pesántez has worked as a Workshop Facilitator of the Boy’s Town Detention Center, developing spoken word theater workshops in Brooklyn, and as a playwright and actor in cultural programs in Quito, Ecuador. He was a member of The Forum Project, New York’s first ever Theatre of the Oppressed performance troupe, was a housing advocate at University Settlement, and served as a columnist for the Rivard Report serving San Antonio, Texas. Pesántez is currently a leader of Bhakti Yoga and does outreach with yoga centers throughout the world.