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Idea Jam – Thursday, April 17, 2025
4PM-5PM PM
7PM-8PM ET
8PM-9PM AT
© Mothering Our Spirit
Moderated by Jacqueline Lawrence
Jacqueline will welcome Chantal Georges and Nichelle Smith, members of the PLAYYFUL Women of BLOOM Collective, to be in conversation about creating their life from inside their vision and sharing their creative gifts while choosing to be well.
BIO - Jacqueline Lawrence
As a poet, equity strategist, transformational Facilitator with the International Black Summit and Bloom Institute and a community radio co-host and producer of Black on Black on CHUO 89.1FM, Jacqueline enjoys the journey to dance with curiosity, vulnerability, and paradox to mine possibilities and sacred wisdom. Her poetry has been featured in Jubilation, an anthology celebrating Jamaica's 50th Anniversary, the international bestseller, Pebbles in the Pond (Wave 3), Transforming the World One Person at a Time, and the anthology Resilience and Triumph: Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories which captured the first-person stories of 54 racialized immigrant and refugee women across Canada. She is currently working on her next book that will be released later this year.
BIO – Chantel Georges
Chantal is the Director of Mental Health for the Therapeutic Rehabilitation Program at Kings County Hospital, where she combines her administrative leadership with her expertise as a drama therapist. She also runs a small private practice, contributes as an instructor in the post-graduate program Curious Rebels, and infuses her work with the Bloom philosophy. As a guide and facilitator with Bloom Education, she is currently developing ‘Mothering Your Spirit,’ a project born from her own journey of self-care and revitalization. An accomplished actress, Chantal blends creativity, compassion, and a commitment to transformative healing in all she does.
BIO - Nichelle Smith
Nichelle Smith is an independent investigative journalist and author who specializes in the history of people of color. Over nearly two decades at Gannett and USA TODAY, she created and led several multiple award-winning historical investigative projects including Civil Rights in America, Changing Face of America, the 1968 Project, USA TODAY's 1619: The Search for Answers and Never Been Told: The Lost History of People of Color. She also founded and edited USA TODAY's annual Black History Month special magazine edition, following stints at the Smithsonian Institution and Black Entertainment Television.
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