My name is Shanti Ashanti. I was named after my family’s non-profit organization, Beit Hashanti, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Beit Hashanti is a shelter that takes in homeless and abused youth from all sectors of the population, regardless of religion, race, gender or nationality I was raised with forty different brothers and sisters at any given time. In the shelter, the “war” we are engaged in is a daily battle to help kids choose life, to find the power to accept their past and to stop being victims of circumstance. When I auditioned for the original Bet movie, "Gun Hill," writer/director Reggie Rock Bythewood asked me, “How would you...
- 7/24/2014
- by Shanti Ashanti
- ShadowAndAct
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