#64 Toyia Taylor: Speaking with Purpose

Toyia T. Taylor is the Founder and Executive Director of We.APP and is a highly sought-after educator and motivational speaker, who has used her voice to inspire audiences nationally and internationally. Toyia has dedicated her life to community service, social justice and performing arts. Her awards have included the Wonder of Women (WOW) Award, the National Council of Negro Women Incorporated, Style and Substance Award, and the Education for Social Justice Award from Girls for Gender Equity, Incorporated. Her original poems, Brooklyn Love and Blue Note Room, have had classical selections composed to them that were debuted at Carnegie Hall. 

She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:

• That today’s young people are creating self-authored identities, “claiming who they see themselves to be, and how they don't want to be put into boxes.”
• That in encouraging the younger generations “to speak their truth and to speak with purpose”, we are reminded to do this in our own lives.
• That “there's power in gathering”, allowing us to “work on the inner connection, self reflection, being vulnerable with others, in a space that is brave and healing”
• The call to show up and do the work, “even when I don't feel like it. The hopes of what is to come are greater than the sum of me as an individual.”
• The aspirations for the E1-T1 (Each One-Teach One) Global Citizen Academy for children of all backgrounds, communities, and cultures.

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