Toni Blackman
Keynote speaker at the Top 100 Most Powerful Black Women Summit
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About Toni Blackman
- Toni Blackman is a multi-passioned social entrepreneur, award-winning artist, and cultural leader whose work sits at the intersection of communication, creativity, wellness, and global social impact.
- She is the first official U.S. Hip Hop Ambassador, appointed by the U.S. State Department, and has traveled to 51 countries speaking, performing, and facilitating workshops that use Hip Hop as a tool for leadership, diplomacy, and transformation.
- An Echoing Green Fellow alum and Open Society Institute (Soros) Fellow alum, Toni has spent more than two decades designing innovative, culture-rooted frameworks for education and empowerment.
- She is the creator of Cypher pedagogy, a participatory methodology influenced by Afro-diasporic traditions and Hip Hop culture, which has shaped a generation of educators, scholars, and artists worldwide.
- Toni is the author of Wisdom of the Cypher, a book exploring the spiritual, communal, and practical power of the Cypher as a model for communication, healing, and collective leadership.
Toni Blackman
She is the creator of Cypher pedagogy
Session Topic
Be in Flow: Communication, Creativity, and Confidence Through the Cypher
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