Kehinde Lockett

Performing Artist / Instructor
Djapo Cultural Arts Institute | Cleveland, OH | 2018–Present

• Teach dance and facilitate arts-based instruction for participants across a wide range of ages, experience levels, and backgrounds.
• Developed and facilitated workshops, conferences, performances, and community-based arts programming, enhancing community engagement in both local and traveling settings.
• Develop and facilitate workshops, conferences, performances, and community-based arts programming in both local and traveling settings.
• Coordinated vendors, volunteers, guest artists, costumes, rehearsals, backstage logistics, and event-day production needs, ensuring seamless execution of events and programs.
• Represented organization at community events, conferences, performances, and public-facing programming, fostering connections and promoting arts initiatives.
• Selected to participate in film and media productions, collaborating with directors and choreographers to execute movement and performance requirements for professional productions.
• Collaborate with international guest artists and multicultural teams, adapting communication and program logistics across language and cultural differences

Behavioral Health Case Manager
Summer Youth Program | Cleveland, OH | June–July 2026

• Provided behavioral health support and case management services to adolescents in a structured summer program, promoting emotional wellness, healthy coping strategies, communication, and positive decision-making.
• Built supportive relationships with youth, monitoring individual needs, behavior, and engagement, and communicated relevant concerns to program leadership to enhance participant support.
• Facilitated behavioral health and life-skills programming focused on emotional regulation, conflict resolution, coping skills, interpersonal communication, and personal development to foster youth growth.
• Built supportive relationships with youth while monitoring individual needs, behavior, engagement, and progress and communicating relevant concerns to program leadership.
• Communicated with youth, staff, families, and program leadership to address concerns, coordinate support, and promote participant safety and engagement.
• Coordinated daily program operations, managing activities, meals, supplies, schedules, and participant needs in collaboration with staff to ensure consistent program delivery.
• Supported daily academic programming in reading and mathematics while adapting activities and instruction to individual participant needs.

• Serve as Lead Surgical Technologist for neurosurgical procedures, coordinating instrumentation, equipment, supplies, and intraoperative workflow to support safe and efficient case execution.
• Anticipate surgeon and procedural needs throughout cases, efficiently providing instruments, supplies, and equipment while maintaining awareness of the surgical field.
• Prepared operating rooms and surgical instruments according to procedure-specific requirements, adhering to strict sterile technique and infection prevention standards to enhance patient safety.
• Prepare operating rooms, surgical instruments, equipment, and supplies according to procedure-specific requirements while maintaining strict sterile technique and infection-prevention standards.
• Perform surgical counts, specimen handling, room turnover, equipment preparation, and other perioperative responsibilities in accordance with facility policies and patient-safety standards.
• Maintained organization and attention to detail while managing multiple priorities in fast-paced surgical environment, facilitating smooth operational flow.