How I Lost My Voice and Found It: A Poet's Journey: Sojourner Kincaid Rolle at TEDxMoorparkCollege

Recorded April 18, 2014

Sojourner prompts us to nurture interest and skills of young people, and encourage them to use their voice instead of trying to fit in conforming behavior.

Sojourner Kincaid Rolle is a poet, playwright, peacemaker, and community activist. She is the author of Common Ancestry (Mille Grazie Press, 1999) and Black Street (UCSB Center for Black Studies Research, 2009. Her work is published in variety of literary publications and she has a body of uncollected work, some of which has been choreographed for dance presentation and performed as theater. Her most recent publication is "The Yellow Mellow Global Umbrella" (Lucky Penny Press, 2013).

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