LARA AKAL - PUBLICITY CHAIR

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Lara Akal has been a TAAM volunteer and participant member ever since her family immigrated to Minnesota from Türkiye in 1998. Over the years, she has shown up for her community as a youth leader, host, presenter, singer and performer in TAAM events ranging from folk dancing, the Festival of Nations, children’s events, cultural presentations, musical performances, and more. She has a Vocal Music degree from the University of Minnesota, has sang at Carnegie Hall and in the Minnesota Opera, and has been playing piano for over 20 years. Lara leads a dual career in a vast array of performing arts (her full resume can be found at her website LaraAkal.com) as well as a tech career in IT project management. In joining the Board as Publicity Chair, Lara hopes to continue digging deeper into her roots and engaging both our local Turkish-American community and the wider Minnesotan community in outreach through the power of social media and cross-cultural connection.