RachelSimone

RachelSimone Wyley is a musician - essayist - nonfiction poet whose current work focuses on creating authentic space to hold difficult conversations about race. Her work first activates, then leverages vulnerability and empathy - by employing the Black music tradition of call-and-response - as a vehicle to engage diverse adults in critical unlearning, radical re-education, and spontaneous community-building. RachelSimone is committed to: the study of the music and related historical context of African-American people; to articulating comparisons between a past and current reality for African-Americans, and then; to resurrecting said music within modern context. She maintains that her experience as an educator uniquely positions her to approach music - as a tool through which to teach remembrance, reverence, galvanization, and ancestral pride. She has participated in a number of artist residencies and has presented her work live throughout Europe: Puglia, Italy; London, England; Auzits, France; and Turin, Italy.