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On this week’s episode, Marie Kellier, Founder of the LA Carnival. We will talk to Marie about her life as a student at UCLA and wining student film writing awards when she was at UCLA and ultimately being disappointed with the film industry.
About Marie Kellier
Born in Jamaica Marie Kellier came to America as a young woman to pursue her education. As a writer, she ultimately landed at UC LA in the writer’s program. She talks about her struggles as a black woman at UCLA and all the different hurdles she had to overcome.
LA CarnivalÂ
Marie Kellier founded LA Carnival in 1998 to bring a little piece of the Caribbean to Los Angeles but yet still maintaining a very distinctive LA feel to it. We talked about the 2024 carnival that's coming up in June in Leimert Park Village Los Angeles. We also talked about the beginning days of the carnival, the ups and downs of making the carnival happen, the hard work, and all the roadblocks she had to face in order to make this carnival happen.
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