Jacquelynn Misty Coplead
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Misty Copeland
By: Jacquelynn E Pruitt
I was born September 10 1982 is Kansas City MO. I grew up in San Pedro California. I am the fourth out of six siblings. My parents are Sylvia Delacerna, and Doug Copeland. I took my first ballet class when I was 13 at San Pedro Boys and Girls Club.
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When I was 15 I won my first place at Music Center Spotlight Awards. After I won first place in Music Spotlight Awards I began hard studies at the Lauridsen Ballet Center. I worked hard and studied at the San Francisco Ballet school and American Ballet Theatre’s, summer intensive on full scholarship and I was declared ABT’s National Coca-Cola Scholar In 2000.
I gladly joined ABT’s Studio Company in September 2000, then happily joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2001 after that , in August 2007 I became the company’s second African American female Soloist and the first in two decades. Out of 80 dancers in the corps I was the only African American.
In 2008, I received the ‘Leonore Annenberg .Fellowship’ in the Arts, a fellowship to help her train outside of the ABT program. In April 2012 I won received the “BreakingThrough Award”. And after that I won the Boys and Girls Club National Hall of Fame in May 2012.
I was conferred with of honor of of being the ‘National Youth of the Year Ambassador’ for the ‘Boys & Girls Clubs of America’ in 2013. In 2014 I published “Life in an Unlikely Ballerina”cv.
I was among the few public figures selected by then president Barack Obama to be appointed to the ‘President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition’ in 2014. In the same year 2014 I was awarded an honorary doctorate by the ‘University of Hartford’. In 2015 I was named one of the “time magazines 100 most influential people “. On 2016 July 31 I married Olu Evans, he is an lawyer.
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