VÉRONËQUE IGNACE
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VÉRONËQUE 
IGNACE

Public Health Practitioner | Cultural Activist | Curating Performance Artist.

BIO

A cultural activist, public health researcher and consultant, community-based organizer, and curating performing artist, Véronëque Ignace uses ethnographic tools, performance work, research, and public health understandings of program planning and evaluation to facilitate growth, racial equity policies, an orientation toward socio-political community engagement at non-profits, grassroots groups, and larger arts institutions.

The Flatbush, Brooklyn native often uses dance and writing to merge her passion for public health, Haiti, people-centered methodologies, and dance in such a way that allows for large-scale healing. With her movement, she hopes to complicate mechanisms for social change and health equity, connecting spiritual balance and self-understanding to modes of recovery and restoration. She says, "my movement codifies a history and language which I have inherited. In Haiti, dance and music become the guardians of tradition. Everywhere though, dance and music, together are expressions, and I need them to communicate.” 

In 2016, Ignace founded Kriyol Dance! Collective, a collective of artist-leaders, to incite the unapologetic voices of Black arts, and Haitian culture in particular, through collaborative community organizing work and performance-based intervention. In 2018, she began actively building an archive for Lakou Societe St. Michel Archange. 

She is an alum of Williams College and SUNY Downstate School of Public Health. She is currently a PhD student at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health.
Visit Kriyol Collective
Visit The Lakou Societe St. Michel Archive

EDUCATION

CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy 
​Doctorate in Community Health and Health Policy - PhD Student 
 
SUNY Downstate Medical Center School of Public Health
Master of Public Health - Department of Community Health Sciences
Culminating Experience: Exploring Performance Ethnography and Arts-Based Approaches to Public Health Interventions (Dr. Aimee Afable)  


Williams College
Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry; Concentration in Africana Studies (Highest Honors), Certificate in Spanish
​Honors Dossier: Health Through Dance: An Auto-biographical Journey of a Black Haitian Women at Williams College (Professor Shanti Singham, Professor Sandra L. Burton)


Institute for the International Education of Students Abroad, Santiago Chile 
Spanish Language Immersion and Healthcare Studies 

AWARDS

Citizens Committee for New York City
Neighborhood Grant (Kriyol Dance! Collective)
April 2020, March 2019, March 2018

 
SUNY Downstate Medical Center School of Public Health,
The Lowell E. Bellin, MD Award for Excellence in Public
 May 2017


EVIDENCE, A Dance Company
Beth Young Scholarship Recipient
 August 2016


Williams College
Ernest Brown Africana Arts Prize; Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship in Dance
 May 2015

EXPERTISE

  • ​Community organizing, strategic planning and visioning, partnership cultivation, network building with local
  • government, program planning and evaluation
  • Community-based participatory research, survey design, textual analysis, ethnography
  • Curriculum design, lesson planning, and pedagogy centered on healing modalities and embodied knowledge
  • Human Subjects Research - IRB - Social-Behavioral-Education Focus, CITI Program (Feb 2022)
  • Fluent in spoken and written English (native), Haitian Creole (native), and Spanish (fluent)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal, managerial, and organizational skills
  • Microsoft Office, G-Suite, Zendesk, Assembled, Slack, Asana, Lever, Zenefits, webpage creation, and social media 

AFFILIATIONS

  • Dance Studies Association, Member (June 2021)
  • Haitian Studies Association, Member (Sept 2018)
  • American Public Health Association, Member (Aug 2017) 

PRESENTATIONS

Presenter, Implementing Haitian Feminist Theory in Dance Practice and Public Health for Collective Healing Haitian Studies Association Conference, Université Quisqueya Port-au-Prince, Haiti. November 2018
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Presenter, Implementing Haitian Feminist Theory in Dance Practice and Public Health for Collective Healing Re-Imagining Black Girls' and Women's Health Symposium and Workshop, Towson University, MD. May 2018
 
Presenter, Implementing Haitian Feminist Theory in Dance Practice and Public Health APHA 2017 - Annual Meeting & Expo, Atlanta, GA. November 2017

STRATEGIST. 
WRITER. 
SCHOLAR.

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  • COVID-19 and The Creative Economy Study: Determining Conditions Before & After COVID and Identifying Key Community Strategies for Crisis Management (Phase 2); Arts Business Collaborative | Carolyn Pautz, Veroneque Ignace, Erika Pettersen, Dianne Walsh | 2022
  • Racial Differences in the Possible Drivers of DTC Telehealth Usage and Potential Implications for Improving Health Outcomes/Reducing Disparities: An Observational Study; Telemedicine and e-Health | Veroneque Ignace and Lauren Broffman | 2021
  • COVID-19 and The Creative Economy: Phase 1 Emergency Aid Report; Arts Business Collaborative | Carolyn Pautz and Veroneque Ignace | 2021
  • What a Trump Administration Means for Health in the Black Caribbean; Abolition Journal | Jallicia Jolly and Veroneque Ignace​ | 2017

DANCER. 
PERFORMER.
CREATOR.

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

  • 2022 - Rasin San Bout, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
  • 2019 - The Nou Series, Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2018 - Lavi Miyò | On Resistance, Revolution and Lakou St, Michel, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2017 - Summer Bricolage NYC 2017, Kriyol Dance! Collective and Negesti, National Black Theater of Harlem, NY 
  • 2016 - #TRENDING | A HCX LAKOU NOU PROJECT IN EAST FLATBUSH, Haiti Cultural Exchange, Brooklyn Fete, Brooklyn NY
  • 2016 - Forbidden Wombs, Lakou NOU at Mizik Ayiti by Haiti Cultural Exchange, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn NY 
  • 2016 - Lavi Miyò, Haiti Cultural Exchange's from Revolisyon/Revolution series, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn NY 
  • 2015 - Dancing to Resist. Restore featuring Morgan Zwerlein, JamHealth! by Jallicia Jolly, Kingston, JA, 
  • 2015 - Avek Manman’m: A testimony of faith, Solo featured in Ron Brown’s EVIDENCE's “Journey to the Great Mystery,” Williamstown, MA
  • 2015 - Chapter Three: Arc-en-Ciel, Department of Africana Studies Thesis Presentation and Defense (from “Healing through Dance: An Autobiographical Journey of a Black Haitian Woman at Williams College.”), '62 Center for Theater and Dance, Williamstown, MA 
  • 2015 - Healing Through Dance, Department of Dance Winter Study Showing, '62 Center for Theater and Dance, Williamstown, MA 
  • 2014 - Yanvalou, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, July 2014
  • 2014 - Yanvalou and Banda, Kusika and Zambezi Marimba Band Freedom Dance, '62 Center for Theater and Dance, Williamstown, MA 
  • 2013 - Evolution and Maintenance: The Culture of Traditional Haitian Dance, '62 Center for Theater and Dance, Williamstown, MA 

RASIN SAN BOUT (2022)

KONSOLE (2019)

LAVI MIYÒ (2016-2018)

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