Louisa Calio

Her mother was named the Brenda Frasier of Lafayette High School and worked as a secretary when she married Joseph Calio, a Sicilian American whose family came from Palermo and Agrigento.

Joseph was a World War II veteran and Vice President in charge of Production for Ralph Lauren Corporation's Women's Wear and the founder and officer in the Progressive Dress Club and Americans of Italian Descent (AID).

Documenting her journeys in photographic images, as well as the written word, she exhibited her photos at the Broward County Library, the Sangster International Airport and Round Hill Hotel and Villas, Montego Bay in "A Passion for Africa," based on a lifelong attraction to Nubia and the Nile and "A Passion for Jamaica," reading from her book in progress, A Day in the Tropics.

Calio was a founding member and the first Executive Director of City Spirit Artists, Inc. (1976–1981), a nonprofit organization in New Haven, Connecticut, funded by a Bicentennial Grant to make arts available to divergent populations.

[5] She has directed and performed multimedia productions of her work set to dance and music by jazz composers Oliver Lake and Wadada Leo Smith at Yale University, Albertus Magnus College, ACES Educational Center for the Arts for many years.