CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ, an award-winning poet and actor from New York City, has been described as “raw and intense...a rebel Don Juan with a sensitive edge” (Underrated Magazine). A former social worker and teacher, he has done over 100 college and university performances and toured across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. He is a member of the legendary Nuyorican Poets’ Café's Slam Team that finished 2nd in the U.S. at the National Poetry Slam and has a lead role in the Spike Lee film "Inside Man" (Universal Pictures) alongside Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen (www.theinsideman.net).

GÓMEZ recently won a Rocky Mountain Emmy® Award for his starring role in the groundbreaking "Respect Yourself" television spots and appeared on the third season of the hit Showtime series "The L Word." A burgeoning performer in the national spotlight, he is one of the headline acts on the critically-acclaimed, MTV-U sponsored Fight Apathy National Tour (www.fightapathy.org). Over the past 6 years, he has shared the stage and opened for a diverse range of well-known musical acts, such as Wyclef Jean, MC Lyte, Toots and the Maytals, Brook Valentine, Vaeda, Immortal Technique, The Slip, Pete Rock, Reel Big Fish, and Saul Williams.

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