The Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice Hope Lives Annual Celebration is this Thursday, September 18th from 5-7:30pm at the Goodman Center Brassworks Building in Madison, WI. Today's podcast gives a preview of some of the voices you will get to hear that evening.Tickets are still available at www.wifaithvoices.org

This week on the interfaith Voices Podcast is the Hope Lives Annual Celebration featured musician, Shelene Zarate-Lopez!
Shelene is a singer, dancer and actress from Mexico City. She has a B.S. in Communications with specialization in Media Arts with a background in Musical Theater. Her singing experience has roots in traditional Mexican music and opera. Her passion for artistic expression started at the age of three when she first discovered dancing. She has studied different styles of dance including belly dance, hip hop, African, jazz, salsa, merengue and reggaeton. Her family and culture instilled a deep understanding of expressing oneself through music.

Shelene has worked as on air talent, producer and actress in radio, television and other audiovisual platforms. Currently she works as a bilingual specialist consultant, interpreter/translator, voice actor, video talent, script supervisor and as a singer. She hosts a bilingual show “Conectados” on the VMO show on WVMO 98.7 FM every 3rd Friday of the month at 12:00 pm and her interviews are available in video on the Monona Community Media Youtube page and the Monona Go App. In her free time she loves advocating for her Mexican and Latino community, fitness dancing, yoga, sewing, cooking, worshipping, crafting and spending time with God, her Family and her friends!

For more information on the Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice Hope Lives Annual Celebration, please go to www.wifaithvoices.org/hope-lives

Cecelia Klingele was a panelist for our May Interfaith Intersections event on Justice. She is well qualified for the topic as a Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she teaches courses in criminal law, Constitutional criminal procedure, policing, and sentencing and corrections. She also teaches courses for law students and undergraduates on Catholic Legal Thought and the Social Encyclicals. Since 2024, she has served as Director of the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, and is a faculty associate of the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Integrated Liberal Arts Studies program (ILS).

For more information on Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice and Interfaith Intersections please go to www.wifaithvoices.org