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Sandra Kerr (diversity adviser)

For the folk singer, see Sandra Kerr.

Sandra Kerr CBE

CBE

OccupationNational Campaign Director for Business in the Community’s Race Equality campaign
Organizations
  • Ethnic Minority Employment Stakeholder Group (EMESG)
  • Royal Society Diversity Committee
Known for
Board member of
  • Business in the Community Race Leadership Team
  • Cabinet Office Race Board

Sandra KerrCBE is a race, gender, and disability business and policy advisor in the United Kingdom.[1] Kerr is currently the Business in the Community's Race Equality Director and has worked in the Cabinet Office.[2][3]

Professional background

Between 1999 and 2003, Sandra Kerr worked in the Cabinet Office advising on policies on race, gender, disability, and work-life balance across Whitehall.[3] Prior to this, Kerr worked in the Department for Work and Pensions delivering front-line services to 33,000 customers whilst also managing a team of 120 employees.[4] Kerr also worked as a personal deve

Sondra Kerr Blake


Before becoming an actress, Sondra Kerr Blake was a dancer/choreographer, having choreographed, written the music to and performed her first solo work at age four. Proclaimed a child prodigy, she was placed on the concert stage to perform that solo work by movie/stage choreographer/impresario Lester Horton.

Age eleven, birth certificate altered to read, eighteen, Sondra joined the Horton adult Dance Theater Company, performing as soloist. Shortly after, she was hired as the star dancer/choreographer on The Jerry Fielding Musical TV Variety show and by fifteen years of age Sondra toured as lead dancer with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera.

Soon after, studying acting with famed acting coaches, Sanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Martin Landau, Sondra became a member of The Actors Studio. Spotted by a Hollywood casting agent while touring as Cherie in the play“Bus Stop” Sondra was cast in a lead guest role for one of the last episodes of “Gunsmoke”. The episode is one of ten chosen for the TV Classic Westerns Book and Video Collection.

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Personal Bio

Age 12, birth certificate changed to read age eighteen, Sondra Kerr Blake began her professional dance career,  as lead dancer with Alvin Ailey in the Lester Horton Dance Theater Co.,toured as lead dancer with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, and then landed  choreographer/ dancer in TV on the Jerry Fielding Show, The 3D Follies (first produced 3D film), etc.

 

Known for the emotional quality and content she brought to her dancing, soon after discovered by  talent scouts, Sondra transferred into the profession of acting. Her acting mentors and trainers include, the late coaching luminaries, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, and Martin Landau. 

Sondra’s extensive list of theater credits include starring roles in:the comedy “Make A Million” (Pasadena Playhouse), I Am A Camera (Bridge Bay Summer Theater) Eve Ensler’s debut production of :”The Ladies” (Geffen/Westwood Theater), (The Actors Studio NYC) production of :”Ladies” directed by Shelley Winters. Sondra also co-wrote “Lenny and Honey” and toured it

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