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Hometown: Stone Mountain, GA
John Harper received degrees in African American Studies and Vocal Performance at Oberlin College. John has performed both nationally and internationally in such productions as Snapshots with acclaimed Broadway director Kenny Leon (Atlanta, GA), The Magic Flute with the Rome Festival Opera (Rome, Italy), and Little Women with the Oberlin Opera Theater (Oberlin, OH). Outside of the arts arena, he worked to support the students of color initiative on Oberlin’s campus as co-founder of the Admissions Student Advisory Council, a group aimed at increasing minority student recruitment and enrollment at Oberlin. John aspires to become a professional opera singer and one day hopes to open an arts-based community school to support underserved communities across the country. He now works at a charter school in Cleveland while preparing to attend a graduate program in Vocal Performance.
During his first year as an Institute scholar, John interned at the National Endowment of the Arts. In the summer of 2007, he interned at the Arc in Washington, DC. John returned to Washington the following year to assume the role of Institute summer fellow.
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