Yatta Zoker joined the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center as program assistant for the INTERSECTIONS initiative in September 2014. After living in Saudi Arabia for many years, she is excited to be engaging with Muslim culture through the arts. Ms. Zoker is a graduate of Wesleyan University’s Film Studies program. However, the majority of her time at Wesleyan was spent studying performance and interdisciplinary art with Eiko of Eiko & Koma and dancers of the Liz Lerman school of thought, as well as practicing jazz vocal improvisation with vibraphonist Jay Hoggard and vocalist Giacomo Gates. She is currently working towards her MFA in Interdisciplinary Practices and Emerging Forms at the University of Houston’s School of Art. Prior to working at the Mitchell Center, she served as a production assistant at the King AbdulAziz Center for the Arts in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and on the event staff of Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts in Middletown, CT. Ms. Zoker has also spent time working in radio and oral history, archiving the stories and experiences of marginalized people.