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"Chillin' da Conscious Poet," is the Technology Director and Computer Clubhouse Coordinator in the Silicon Valley. She has earned an AAA degree in Graphic Communications, a BS in Business, a MBA and a Master's degree in Information Systems.  After a life-altering experience in West Africa in 2006, she made a promise to her ancestors, hence launching The Soultown Magazine in digital and in print form in January 2017. 

   The Sweet Potato, is the Soultown mobile. It has traveled across the country to find the most interesting stories, communities, neighborhoods, people, and businesses. If you see this Sweet Potato in your neighborhood, be sure to stop her and grab a sweet pic.

The Soultown's Sweet Potato traveled to Palo Alto to view the Black Lives Matter street mural. She headed to Vegas to review the Black Tap restaurant in the Venetian Hotel. Once, she traveled to National Arches Park to witness the beautiful Red Rock creation.

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Contributing Writer - MRGreatness™️ Unbeknownst to most, MRGreatness™ is not a person, place, or thing. Rather, MRGreatness™ is a motto for living with the purpose and spirit of a Mentality Reflecting Greatness™.  In hopes of healing our community from impoverished thinking and living, MRGreatness™ will serve as a lens to assist men, women, and communities to gain confidence in their abilities to overcome mediocrity, trauma, and setbacks in life.

 Tyra is the Authentic Advisor of The Soultown Magazine. She was born and partially raised on Chicago’s south side where she began writing short stories and poems. Tyra has spent the past 18 years serving as a teacher and program director for various high schools, colleges, and universities. She enjoys traveling to tropical climates and dreams of one day moving to the island of Curacao to write, teach, and lay on the beach all day.

Slam poet and spoken word artist from Chicago, IL. Queen Gabby is one of the founding members of SaYes2Poetry who landed a position as an Advice Columnist for The Soultown after dominating the Oakland, CA poetry circuit with her provocative, opinionated poetry pieces. In 2012, she coached San Jose's youth Brave New Voices poetry team to Berkeley, CA, and Chicago, IL. She is working on her first novel and currently resides out west.

Quenton Richardson, also known as Big Q is The Soultown's male Advice Columnist, sharing the male perspective. He is currently single; born in Chicago, Illinois, but resides in the lovely state of Iowa. He says, “Every day I strive to remain humble and appreciative of all the things God has allowed me to acquire in my life. Some have been positive and some not, but at the end of the day it has developed me into the man I am now.” Quenton takes pride in staying focused. In his words, “I stay in my own lane and mind my own business.” 

Steven McNeal is a native of Chicago, IL. He migrated to Atlanta, GA in 1991 to

attend Morehouse College where he graduated with a B.A. in Business. Opting for “Southern hospitality and sweet tea,” instead of “blizzards and below zero temperatures,” Steven decided to make Georgia his home. Steven McNeal continues to progress his passion for Financial Freedom and his

enthusiasm for collective power through debt elimination.

Rogette Harris is the first African-American and youngest woman elected Chairman of the Dauphin County Democratic Committee and is a community columnist for the 

Patriot-News. She has a policy background and wrote policy on a state and federal level for over a decade. Educationally, she has a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and dual Master degrees in Public Administration and Business Administration.

 Dr. Que has passionately worked to impact the lives of high-performance individuals and their families for more than 20 years. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, Certified Employee Assistance Professional, and a Board-Certified Coach with Executive, Career and Life Coaching Designations. Dr. Que has considerable experience. Her specialties include career transition, brain injury, stress/anxiety, grief/loss, performance enhancement and sports injury.

 Derrick Holmes he Founder and CEO of Benjamin Banneker Watches and Clock Company headquartered in Denver, Colorado; Transformational Productions, LLC and Esteem Entertainment.

He has dual residences in Denver, Colorado, and Los Angeles, California, and is a single father to a 12-year-old daughter, Ne’Vaeh, who is with me all the time and a 32-year-old daughter, Deanna, who made me a grandpa of a soon to be three-year-old girl, Olivia.

 Diquan Richard is a Bay Area Native who is currently pursuing an education at San Francisco State University. He is majoring in Studio Art while minoring in Computer Animation. Since the age of 13, Diquan has always had a passion to express himself creatively through his art, music, poetry, and his global humanitarian work. He has dreams of gaining employment at Pixar Animation Studios as a computer animator. 

Dr. Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure teaches English, American, Multicultural, Post-Colonial, and African American literature in the Department of Languages and Literatures. He is the 2007-2008 Regents Awards for Faculty Excellence, and the 2005 Philip G. Hubbard Outstanding Educator at the University of Northern Iowa. A Fulbright alumnus, he holds B.A. in Letters and Licence (M.A.) ès Letters in English from the National University of Rwanda, Rwanda, and M.A. and Ph.D. in English from SUNY at Buffalo.