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OVERVIEW:
Carlos Andrés Gòmez was born on December 23, 1981. Carlos was born in New York City, but before even graduating high school, he moved around twelve times, lived in four different countries and attended twelve different schools. He graduated in 2000 from Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island. Carlos went on in his education and attended the University of Pennsylvania and received his bachelor degree in History.With this degree, Carlos was able be a former social worker and then moved into having the position as a public school teacher. After his years serving kids and education he has been influencing many all over the world even through his writing and his many other works. Carlos Andrés Gòmez is a Colombian American poet, speaker, actor and author. He was named 2016 Best Diversity Artist

LIFE & Literary Contributions:
After listening to the poet, Martín Espada read at his high school, Carlos felt something in him ignite. He soon got to working and started his works on poetry, where he found his love. Carlos Andrés Gòmez has performed for many colleges and universities and he was known all around, and has gotten the chance to tour across North America, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Africa. Gòmez has been nominated for several awards and has won many others. Carlos was a a member of the Nuyorican Poets Café's Slam Team that finished 2nd and he was also a member with the NYC/louderARTS Slam Team that finished 3rd in the U.S. While working on his writing, he had a main role in the “Respect Yourself” television spots. He wrote for these spots also. He was awarded a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award for this role.The year 2006 was a big year for him. He won the Slam King of New York and also was a champion for Toronto’s International Poetry Slam. He also distributed his first full length CD. It was called “Carlos Andrés Gòmez: Live from New York.” In this same year he was the winner of L.A’s Music Award for Spoken Word Album of the Year.

Moving forward with his works, Carlos has partnered with many celebrities, including John Legend, on Senior Orientation. It is a program to counteract bullying and champion inclusive masculinity among high school students. All of his works is about what the common Latinx faces. This includes identity, missing history, and our purposes. He’s had so many poems that he has performed in front of dozens of people, and each of his performances goes viral. He has “What Lation Looks Like” “What is Genocide?” “Where Are You Really From?” and so many other viral works. Carlos has a website where he post articles, his written work, about his poems and performances, and how people react to it. His purpose with his work is to reach out to people and allow them to relate to him. Many of his work consist of coming age, including his memoir, Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood. Carlos is one who gives back to people. He was the co-founder of the Excelano Project in 2001. It is a premier performance poetry group at the University of Pennsylvania.

Through his work, as a Latino man, he knows that for latinos, to be a man as some very controversial activities and meanings to it. Carlos Andrés Gòmez is putting an end to toxic masculinity. After settling down with a family he has realized that how society defined masculinity, that “locker room talk”, it is all wrong. It is all a disgrace to think that this is what is acceptable for how men should act. Through high books, poems, and the magic of spoken word, Carlos has decided to find his way to break these barriers. According to Gòmez,“There’s no one way to be a man. Even though change is a scary thing, even if it's for the better, we can set that tone to act unapologetically.”

WORKS:
Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood

Elegy for Breath

Underground

When Two Words Fracture the Mirror

Changing My Name

Cool

What Happened

Race Was Not a Factor

Twelve Reasons to Abolish C.B.P. & I.C.E

When Our Black Son Arrives

Hijito

Before The Last Shot

Black Hair

Interracial in Flatbush, Brooklyn

Afro-Latino

Wait ( co- written with Jeanann Verlee)

What’s Genocide