Leadership Innovator Rha Goddess’s Speech from Annual Convention
August 8th, 2007 at 12:10pm Chad Bauman
Uploaded to this blog post, you will find an audio podcast of Rha Goddess’s speech from the 2007 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention. Rha was the 2007 Leadership Innovator.
Rha Goddess is a performing artist and social-political activist. Her work, combining vibrant images, linguistic brilliance, hip-hop rhythms, and unflappable honesty, has been internationally featured in several compilations, forums, and festivals. Time magazine called her debut project, Soulah Vibe–one of the year’s coolest records. As founder and CEO of Divine Dime Entertainment, Ltd., she was one of the first women in Hip Hop to co-create, independently market, and commercially distribute her own music worldwide. Her activist work includes co-founding the Sista II Sista Freedom School for Young Women of Color. Goddess’s current projects include Meditations With The Goddess and The Next Wave of Women & Power/We Got Issues! We Got Issues! recognizes that young women have the power to preserve, repair, and protect families, communities and the globe, yet this power is often hidden behind unspoken personal and political issues. Goddess is giving voice to young women through visions, songs, and movement,with the goal to transform women’s ideas of leadership and power.
Audio and video files from previous events, as well as Americans for the Arts’ monthly podcast, can be accessed from our website. To listen to this podcast, please click on the play button below.
