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Mark Harris
A man of many talents and vocations, Mark Harris M.A., CADC I, hails from California, as he puts it: “born in the Haight, raised in South Central, on Grandma’s gumbo, Grandpa’s Black Liberation Theology, and Mom and Dad’s insistence on voracious early literacy, and encouraged tendencies towards the mellifluous.”
He currently coordinates The Recovery Center, a project of the Multicultural Substance Abuse Prevention Program at Lane Community College. As a singer songwriter he has co-founded Rhythm & Bliss, Taiwo Taste The World, as well as being a solo artist. A developer of culturally proficient recovery technologies he has presented African Centered Reality Therapy, and The Book of Sand: 12 Steps of Racism Recovery Anonymous. An award winning journalist he writes commentary for local newspapers and radio, as well as hosts a weekly television program DiversiTV. Showcasing his calling as a “maroon griot” (descendant of escaped slaves, professional oral historian) and following up previous Oregon Country Fair appearances presenting material from his books “Brer Rabbit and Coyote were Going There”, “Maroon Zikr”, and “Hussein the Tragic Mulatto”, this year’s performance springs from his extended Work in Progress: “Recovering the White Roots of Peace: Nourishing The White Roots of Peace”.
Mark also credits the influences of Zuma, Hamoa, Makena, and Julia Pfeiffer Beaches as well as several redwood forests, not to mention a couple of dormant California volcanoes.