About Roopa

“I’ve got an eye out/for shit that cries out/passionately.”

(Andre Benjamin, Outkast)

roopa has mix cd’s good ones. you can reach her for a mix at:
politicalpoet@gmail.com.

the first person to be born outside of india in thousands of years of
lineage, roopa singh is a lawyer by trade and a poet by choice. roopa
graduated from uc berekley school of law and stepped to the stage,
touring with a group of independent hip hop artists throughout the
caribbean. she is currently an award winning professor of law, hip
hop, and politics at city college (cuny) and pace university. this fall,
roopa starts a master’s program in cinema studies at nyu. before
moving to brooklyn from the bay area two years ago, roopa taught at
every correctional facility in the bay area and worked as a legal
journalist in the u.s. supreme court. she’s thrilled to have recently
completed a year long arts education project with the new museum.
roopa’s writings on politics, media, and popular culture have been
published or supported by the nation, the ford foundation, wire tap
magazine, and feministing.org. she writes on the popular blog:
http://politicalpoet.wordpress.com.

roopa has lit up stages as a hip hop poet, emcee, songstress and
comedienne at lincoln center (ny), hearbst theater (sf), black august
(cuba), judson memorial church (ny), the women’s building (sf), brecht
forum (ny), the asian american writers workshop(ny), nuyorican poets
cafe (ny), and the bowery poetry club (ny). her hip hop theater based
one woman show, “love marraige,” was featured in apature: san
francisco’s asian american arts festival and pittsburgh’s three rivers
arts festival. roopa’s visual art work was featured on stage in the
andolan project’s, “sukh aur dukh ki kahani,” part of the culture
project’s women center stage festival. she also facilitates workshops
on hip hop and politcs, including key presentations at the united
states social forum (atlanta, ga) and the incite color of violence
conference (new orleans, la).