Zócalo Public SquareBoxer and Actress Kali “KO” Mequinonoag Reis – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Boxer and Actress Kali “KO” Mequinonoag Reis https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/06/02/boxer-and-actress-kali-ko-mequinonoag-reis/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/06/02/boxer-and-actress-kali-ko-mequinonoag-reis/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Fri, 02 Jun 2023 07:01:28 +0000 Jer Xiong https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=136102 Kali “KO” Mequinonoag Reis is a professional boxer and actress. She hails from East Providence, Rhode Island, and is a member of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe, and is the first Indigenous Woman fighter to become a World Champion. Before joining the Zócalo program “What Does Boxing Owe Its Champions?”—presented in partnership with UCLA College, Division of Social Sciences and ASU Global Sport Institute—Reis chatted with us in the green room about food she can’t resist, parallels between boxing and acting, and the most memorable fight of her career.

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]]> Kali “KO” Mequinonoag Reis is a professional boxer and actress. She hails from East Providence, Rhode Island, and is a member of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe, and is the first Indigenous Woman fighter to become a World Champion. Before joining the Zócalo program “What Does Boxing Owe Its Champions?”—presented in partnership with UCLA College, Division of Social Sciences and ASU Global Sport Institute—Reis chatted with us in the green room about food she can’t resist, parallels between boxing and acting, and the most memorable fight of her career.

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