{"id":431,"date":"2022-11-29T23:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/?page_id=431"},"modified":"2025-07-03T21:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:52:45","slug":"board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bombamarile.com\/index.php\/board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Executive Director<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Miriam Padilla Vargas<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, she is one of the founding members of Bomba Maril\u00e9. She appreciates learning from different cultures, and has  performed many styles of dance ranging from salsa, bachata, polynesian, bollywood, ballroom, and more. Miriam has always sought ways to be involved in the community, including being on the Board of Directors of KRCL, PANDOS, Latino Diabetes Association, and others in the past. When Miriam is not practicing bomba, she works as an Endocrinologist focusing on diabetes and obesity. Miriam is grateful to the Maril\u00e9 family for creating the space that connects us to our roots and ancestors.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Board of Directors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Isaias Alavez Martinez<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Isaias is one of the co-founders of Bomba Maril\u00e9. He enjoys learning music and dance from  different cultures. He has traveled to Puerto Rico as well as Cuba to study drumming and  dancing. Isaias has also been a salsa dancer in different dance groups. Having a space for a  community to share their music, dancing and singing is very important to him. It helps to  preserve our cultures for future generations. Isaias is very excited for this opportunity to work  with a great group of culture lovers in Bomba Maril\u00e9 to serve and help to grow the Bomba  community.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rafael Maya<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am an artist from the Caribbean who has dedicated most of my life to learning and sharing culture with the world.  I go by different names at different moments but most know me as Rafael Maya.  Father, Son, Family, Friend, Omo Awo, Musician, Composer, Producer, Choreographer, Dancer, Visual Artist.  I am honored to be the Director of the Puerto Rican Bomba group, Desde Cero.  I also participate in other groups that play genres spanning from Afro Caribbean music to Jazz to Hip-hop to Futurism.  Recently I have been exploring electronic music and have been creating with artists from around the globe.  This has pushed me to record my own solo album.  I will be releasing its first single in the upcoming months.  This opened a door to an amazing opportunity to start a project with musicians in Cuba. We are combining sampled sounds with ancient rhythms and modern structures.  I am also in the beginning stages of recording Desde Cero\u2019s 2nd production.  I find myself immersed in various hip-hop ventures, futuristic madness, and a few other surprises.  I have been exploring expression through visual art as well.  I realized that one can say a lot with a wood carving, a photograph, a painting, etc.  This has been a great way to expand.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nicole Wines<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nicole Wines is a co-founder of Ra\u00edces Cultural Center in Central New Jersey, where she has been a core arts and humanities team member since 2008. At Ra\u00edces, Nicole’s roles as program coordinator, digital archive curator, and Ra\u00edces Folkloric Ensemble member, choreographer and teaching artist have centered around the organization’s mission of preserving cultural roots through the arts, history and ecology. She is a drummer, bassist, and dancer and has been learning, documenting, performing and sharing the cultural arts, dance and music of the Caribbean since she formally began her studies in 2005. She is proud to serve as a board member at Bomba Maril\u00e9 and hopes her experience as a performing and teaching artist, community historian and arts organization administrator will help to strengthen its mission and programs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jeanitza Avil\u00e9s Calder\u00f3n<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Maestr\u00eda en Educaci\u00f3n de las Bellas Artes con Especialidad en Danza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

28 a\u00f1os de servicio en el Departamento de Educaci\u00f3n, con experiencia en los niveles elemental, intermedio y superior, adem\u00e1s de escuelas especializadas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comenc\u00e9 a los 8 a\u00f1os de edad a bailar los 2 g\u00e9neros de m\u00fasica afropuertorrique\u00f1a: bomba y plena, con Modesto Cepeda. Luego de muchos a\u00f1os con ellos, pas\u00e9 al grupo Ag\u00fceyban\u00e1, luego a Paracumbe, y despu\u00e9s he colaborado con otros grupos, como Tamboricua, Hermanos Cepeda, Restauraci\u00f3n Cultural, Bomba Evoluci\u00f3n, Proyecto AfroLegado, Tambuy\u00e9, Desde Cero, Hijos de Ag\u00fceyban\u00e1, Tacuafan, Tamborama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mi inter\u00e9s y pasi\u00f3n por la danza me llevaron tambi\u00e9n a ser integrante por muchos a\u00f1os en el grupo Batucada Baob\u00e1, donde hac\u00edamos presentaciones de samba, batucada y afro brasile\u00f1o. En el mismo g\u00e9nero brasile\u00f1o, tambi\u00e9n he colaborado con Debora Brum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A trav\u00e9s de mi vida como bailarina tambi\u00e9n he llevado mi arte a lugares fuera de Puerto Rico, como: Saint Thomas, Grenada, Rep\u00fablica Dominicana, Venezuela, M\u00e9xico DF, Veracruz, Italia, Francia, Orlando, Minnesota, Chicago, New York, Seattle.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Executive Director Miriam Padilla Vargas Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, she is one of the founding members of Bomba Maril\u00e9. She appreciates learning from different cultures, and has  performed many styles of dance ranging from salsa, bachata, polynesian, bollywood, ballroom, and more. Miriam has always sought ways to be involved in the community, including … <\/p>\n

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