Charlotte Warren

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Charlotte Warren-Huey was born and raised in Manhattan and Queens. She graduated with an art major from Music & Arts High School (now LaGuardia School for the Arts) and went on to obtain a Bachelor of Education and Speech at City College in Manhattan. This was followed by her first Masters in Speech Arts/Audiology at Hunter College. During this period she also taught a course in Creative Dramatics for Parents & Children at City and Hunter College. She lived in Belgium for seven years where her husband, Charles, went to medical school at the University of Louvain. In addition to traveling abroad during these years, she wrote articles for French newspapers and magazines (ESPRIT) where she met other writers of the same magazine (Simone du Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre), and tutored English for foreign students going to the US to study. Upon their return to the States, they first lived in Rochester, New York (where her husband did his internship). During that period she chaired the Speech Department at West High School. She also founded a Performing Arts Center before moving to Buffalo, where she directed plays at the Studio Arena Theatre. Warren-Huey taught at Francis Lewis High School in Queens until 1979, when she moved to Springfield Gardens High School as a college advisor/guidance counselor. In the interim, she received her second masters in Counseling at C.W. Post. She worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and L.I. University. She also did freelance journalism for women’s magazines and papers (New York Women’s Week). Of all her accomplishments, Charlotte is most proud of her work with the group Red, White, Yellow, and Black where she met and engaged with Shigeko Kubota, Cecilia Sandoval, and Mary Lucier. As each performed in their own medium, something that also exemplified their individual ethnic group, Charlotte’s participation was readings from the works of Black poets and other Black artists of the time. The performance was at the original Kitchen at 240 Mercer Street. (2023)