Amina Blackwood Meeks

Award-winning Writer, Actress, Storyteller, Founder/Artistic Director, Ntukuma, The Storytelling Foundation of Jamaica and Founder/Director, Ananse SoundSplash, the international storytelling conference and festival staged annually in Jamaica. She weaves tales from the loom of her knowledge of the Caribbean, her life as teacher-communication specialist, political scientist, social and cultural policy researcher/analyst-turned farmer. Her stories cover a range of issues affecting gender, the environment, children and the direction of human development. Her telling of these parables for the theatre renders her “An outrageous combination of education and entertainment, of glitz and thoughtfulness”. This same style marks her one-of-kind technique as a motivational speaker and workshop facilitator for any age-group.

Amina has performed and conducted workshops at storytelling festivals and a host of speaking engagements across the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and North America.

Amina is dedicated to demonstrating the value of storytelling as a rehumanizing project as set out in her PhD Thesis, The Oral Tradition: Displacement, Adjustment, Replacement – Storytelling as a Tool for Wholistic Development. This thesis informs a 20-hour on-line course in storytelling, This is a Story.