Malesha Taylor
founding director and artist
Malesha (aka Mali Irene) Taylor is a vocal artist, TEDx Speaker, liberatory strategist and the creator of The E.L.E.V.A*T.E. Framework: 8 Guiding Principles for BIPOC leaders and organizations. This framework has emerged from her lived-experience as an opera singer, Black woman, Mother, professor, arts administrator and consultant working across arts disciplines and multiple sectors for the past 25 years. Malesha is a proud Urban Bush Woman SLI Alum and has published articles with Arts for a Changing America and HowlRound. Malesha is also deeply committed to cultural preservation, specifically in the Black/African diaspora communities and wealth building through creative, historic and cultural capital.As a transdisciplinary artist and scholar whose writings encompass liberatory praxis, Mali thinks holistically about designing ecosystems for BIPOC leaders, teams and cultural institutions to thrive. She has been a professor and/or guest lecturer at Harvard University, Spelman College, Scripps College- The Claremont Colleges, California State University, San Marcos and Clark Atlanta University and is currently writing an auto-ethnography.
See her TEDx talk below.
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