In 2003, Dr. Etwaroo took her Fulbright Scholarship to Ethiopia to work with refugee Somali women and children, for which she received the Emerging Doctoral Scholar Award and the Graduate Research Award from the National Congress on Research in Dance. She oversaw education and humanities programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, receiving BAM’s Dance Africa Award for Outstanding Service; the Education and Community Heritage Award from Bed-ford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp.; and various other awards, grants and fellowships. In 2006 she became the Founding Executive Producer of The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at National Public Radio in New York. There, in 2012, on the 75th anniversary of the publication of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, she produced a radio adaptation that starred Phylicia Rashad, Leslie Uggams and Chuck Coooper.
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