Toba Singer

Toba Singer is former Senior Program Director of the Art and Music Center of the San Francisco Public Library. With a BA in History from the University of Massachusetts and a Masters in Library Science, she spent 30 years engaged in the struggles of working people as a steelworker, refinery worker, garment and airline worker. Her son James Gotesky dances with Houston Ballet. She is the author of First Position: a Century of Ballet Artists (Praeger 2007), and her book Fernando Alonso: the Art and Science of Ballet (University Press of Florida) will come out in September, 2011.