Mauricio Tafur Salgado

Mauricio Tafur Salgado co-founded Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP), an organization whose mission it is to connect performing and visual artists with youth from under-resourced communities in the United States and around the world to imagine together, think critically together, and conceive a world without poverty. As ASTEP's program director, Mauricio taught and devised with artists of all ages across the United States and in parts of Peru, South Africa, and India. He also cofounded the Artist as Citizen Conference, which is hosted by the Juilliard School. As an actor and storyteller, Mauricio has performed in venues throughout New York, Washington, D.C., Florida, California, Germany, and Belgium and has taught workshops at Santa Clara University, Alfred University Georgia Southwestern State University, Stonehill College, Eastern Mennonite University, LaGuardia College, Kingsborough College, and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Mauricio received a B.F.A. in acting from the Juilliard School in 2005. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in divinity from Union Theological Seminary and a master's degree in directing at Brown University. He is the recipient of the Raul Julia Memorial Scholarship, Jerome L. Greene Fellowship and the Martin E. Segal award.