YWCA Racial Justice Summit: Closing Keynote - Reanae McNeal

Reanae McNeal is an award-winning international performing artist, inspirational speaker, acclaimed vocalist, oral HERstorian, visual artist, griotess (storyteller), performing art poet, and cultural activist. Reanae’s specialty is storytelling in the African/African-American/African-Native American tradition. She plays over twenty African and Native American instruments. These instruments come from the countries of Turtle Island/United States, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda. Her acclaimed award-winning one-woman plays centering on the diversity of women’s lives have been featured nationally and internationally as testimonies to the endurance of women across social locations. These plays include Don’t Speak My Mother’s Name in Vain, Blues Women Don’t Wear No Shoes, And Still I Fly, and Blood at the Roots: African Native American Women as well as others.