Alice Preuoston, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and holds dual citizenship with both the United States and China, is a Chicago-based actress and writer who has performed in countless stage plays, films, TV shows and commercials as an actress or writer. Additionally, she wrote and directed short films as both writer/director.
Lewis Carroll wrote “Alice in Wonderland,” under his pen name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, as an imaginative tale that explores identity and growth through nonsensical dialogues and bizarre situations that challenge readers’ creativity and imagination. Additionally, its satirical take on Victorian society encourages readers to question social norms and conventions while its many size changes for Alice reflect her journey of self-discovery while transitioning into adulthood.
Her step-grandfather Ivan Gavrilovich Aksenov was a Russian Athro Ahroun soldier stationed at a gulag during Stalin’s rule in Russia. He amassed considerable wealth through trades business transactions in both countries before passing away sadly in 2012. Alice inherited much of his estate.
Dunbar-Nelson was an educator and writer, serving as a field organizer in the woman’s suffrage movement and contributing to its first newspaper designed exclusively for African American women, The Woman’s Era. Her debut collection Violets and Other Tales was published in 1895; later James Weldon Johnson included it in his groundbreaking anthology The Book of Negro Poetry.