2025 Annual Convening Speakers

Mary C. Parker (she/her) is the Education Lead with Bandit Theater and the founding director of Bandit’s BIPOC improv program. She has been performing improv comedy for over a decade and believes we can all benefit from adding a little humor to our lives. Mary has published on identity, comedy, and structural racism, and has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts. Offstage, Mary is as tall as Beyoncé, a reality show junkie, and is a mac and cheese aficionado who fervently believes not all mac and cheese are created equal.