Adjunct Professor/ Education Consultant/ Acting Coach. Director/ Producer/ Actor. Fashion Designer/ Milliner/ Hatter

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enna morgan (aka: j.a. morgan) is an  traveller with a passion for art, dance, language, and cultural thought. Beginning at an early age, she has travelled extensively throughout the Caribbean and South America, then later in North America, Europe and Asia. While residing in various countries, she spent many years researching cultural thought and language, concurrent with maintaining her finger on the pulse of theatre, directing, acting, dance, design, literature, and photography,

Years after migrating to the USA, she settled upon Seattle as a home base, after exploring residency in Canada, New York, Los Angeles, Texas, and Monterey. Enna resided for more than two decades in Seattle, Washington. She completed her higher education at the Art Institute of Seattle, then later The University of Washington, while working as a  freelance designer and milliner for various stores, in Belltown, 6th Avenue, Pike Place, Madison Avenue, and Capitol Hill. Fueling her 13-year stint as a designer was the wave of eclecticism she had cultivated as she continued to reside and study design concepts in India, Italy, and various Caribbean and South American countries.

Concurrent with this, she enlisted in the US Army, completing her first term in the medical field, then a second in Military Intelligence. This led to a particular inquiry into social work, social consciousness, and praxeology, which she pursued ardently, while occupying her spare time as a legal assistant and as a volunteer guardian ad litem for women and children at the Regional Justice Centre in Seattle, and with the Navjeevan Centre in the Red Light District of Mumbai, India.

Fascinated by the theories of power and policy espoused by Foucault, Bentham, and Habermas, and the polity of binary relations proffered by Marx, Gramsci, and Bauman, she pursued a master’s degree in Public Action with a concentration in International Relations, at the University of Washington. Morgan continues to expand and explore her interests in these philosophical avenues, and prolific writings exhibits a distinct penchant for these perspectives.

As her lifelong guiding principles have always resided with the Vedic doctrine, and the Buddhist sutras, the underpinnings of j.a.morgan’s ethos and dharma, has been on a consistent course, which has always reflected the organic path to ‘truth’ practised and purported by Mohandas Ghandi; it was no coincidence then that she shied away from the polemical discourse after years of exhaustive engagements in legal and military professions.

Post graduation, preferring a simple lifestyle, and one that precludes the circular and enigmatic characteristics of politics, she decided to utilise her skills in a more gratifying way, and thus began her pedagogical journey in the international programs at Pacific Lutheran University and Seattle Central Community College; this then led to other pursuits and engagements on the international landscape.

Morgan later moved to Argentina to embrace her love for Argentine tango, while teaching preparation courses for the British and American examinations in various companies in Capital Federal, Buenos Aires. Eighteen months later, she accepted a post in Beijing, China, where she lectured at the Beijing Hospitality Institute in Tourism and Hospitality English, and Debate, and Interview Techniques, while privately tutoring the TOEFL and IELTS examinations courses, and English for Academic Purposes (EAP).

Following this, Morgan accepted a position at Tsinghua University, where she taught English Language & Communication, concentrating on the skills of Stage Performance, The Art of Negotiations (Debate), Theatre & Drama, and Interview Techniques. Due to high demand of her skills and unique approach to language acquisition, she was commissioned by various companies, and educational organisations to coach business CEOs, and managers, in stage presence & presentation, and also by the Beijing Education Commission to train teachers in personal development and classroom management.

In 2017, Morgan founded Beijing Fringe Theatre International, which now functions not only as a media production company for theatre coaching, theatre and live productions, but also for film, commercials, and most recently embarked on online courses, using the Udemy platform. The first course in the self-advocacy series, entitled, Write Your Own Narrative, was launched in December 2020, and there are many more courses in the making.

After spending 5 years in Beijing, Enna returned to the USA in 2019, to focus on honing her skills in theatre, acting, modelling, and dance. She continues to fill the downtime with travelling, observing, and researching, while taking regular moments to breathe, create, dance, and write. She continues to utilise her design abilities by redesigning/flipping houses, and to challenge herself with autodidactic sessions in piano and singing; she can be found occasionally at a karaoke bar in Indy, in between live performances at the Interactive Dinner Detective show in Indy, or an on-set filming of a movie, TV series, or video commercial around the US. On a more regular basis, she haunts more secluded areas such as racquetball courts, yoga rooms, and various local gyms.

Throughout all endeavours and activities, Enna continues to examine, analyse, and deconstruct the anatomy of power and the polemics of relational beings, while seeking to investigate and glean……the illusive and obscure elements of ‘truth,’ or, as she term it the ‘conditional reality.’

Enna currently resides in Las Vegas, USA, where she founded Itec Media Group in early 2020, where she is bent on housing projects to ameliorate the environment and the human condition. Additionally, she combines her love for self-advocacy, theatre, and pedagogy in her new adventure – Online teaching through the WYON programme.

Writing Style

In her writing,  enna morgan brings to life the characters she has encountered in her travels, and the situations and scenarios she has experienced. She pierces at the heart of gender politics, while advocating for society’s underrepresented sectors. The Traveling Lite series, a gender-free publication, is dedicated to the liberation of the self, within the confines of the bounded, relational, societal self.

This series will continue its objective – to view the world through philosophical lens and to highlight the (not so) latent subjugation that is resident within our modern, liberal society.

Her current book-in-progress highlights the issue of domestic violence and chronicles the life of a school teacher with the Indian community in Guyana (formerly British Guiana). Throughout her teaching within and outside of the classroom, enna morgan’s message remains constant:

knowledge as a passport for individual sovereignty, and awareness as the single determiner of and delineation between power and powerlessness.

Author’s message

We live, we laugh, we cry, and sometimes we don’t laugh enough; then time goes by and we forget how to live; and eventually we find that we spend a lot of time perfecting that which we practise a lot – how to cry.

How ironic that is, considering that crying is the first sound we made when we entered into this world…….are we thus endogenously programmed? Is it a cultivated cellular response, or a volitional choice? I wager that it is the latter.

Life is a choice that we must make every day! Whatever your situation, choose laughter, it lifts the heart, and rejuvenates the soul.

Reviews

John Peterson, (Former) Professor of English, University of Washington:  “A very lyrical, imaginative, and poetic style of writing; she reminds me of Jamaica Kincaid”

Leslie R., Rice Photography :“Her skills as a wordsmith shine, her flow is fluid, her descriptions are visceral, her beginnings are intriguing, and her endings are strong. Overall, I have always found her writings to be compelling and provocative.”

Jerry Finn, Editor of Social Work Journal of Ethics and Professor of Social Work, University of Washington: “A writer with a very beautiful writing style, I had hoped that she would have agreed to write fiction.” more reviews………

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