for over a decade febo has been coaching youth slam teams, hosting workshops, facilitating professional development, and being a resource for teachers and other teaching artists in the boston area. combining his lived spoken word and slam experience with his theatre and youth worker training, febo brings life into every classroom and treats his teaching as an art form within itself.

teaching history:

• 2013 - 2020 - teaching artist in residence, artward bound at holderness school - holderness, ma

• 2010 - 2020 - mass poetry teaching artist

• 2012 - 2020 - mass leap teaching artist

• 2019 - 2020 - artist in resident @ edward m kennedy school (emk) - boston, ma

• 2019 - workshop leader and artist in residence for national teen convening at institute of contemporary art boston, ma

• 2019 - keynote speaker and workshop leader, bread loaf - lawrence, ma

• 2018 - coaches award, louder than a bomb - boston, ma

• 2016 - 2018 - slam coach for ica (institute of contemporary art) - boston, ma

• 2014 - 2018 - lead writing instructor for the ica’s wall talk program - boston, ma

• 2013, 2015, 2016 - camp councilor and theatre director @ appel farm arts camp - elmer, nj

• 2015 - artist in residence @ community academy of science and health (cash) - boston, ma

• 2014, 2015 - slam coach and culture for change artist and resident for iba (inquilinos boricuas en accion) - boston, ma

• 2009 - 2013 - co founder and slam coach of freeverse! - lowell, ma

• 2009, 2011 - americorps member @ united teen equality center - lowell, ma

examples of poems febo has assisted in coaching