Juanita Lara is the Director of Development at BronxNet, the public access television station for the Bronx. For more than three decades, BronxNet has provided educational programming and broadcast services to the Bronx Community. Additionally, Juanita is a performance artist, and has worked in Theater as a producer, director and performer. She is also an artist educator, and has taken her knowledge and experience in development and fundraising to train and support artists in grant writing and project development. Most recently providing a grant writing and artist statement workshop series in collaboration with Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance and West Harlem Arts Alliance.