InterPlay Leader in Training
Busi L. Peters-Maughan is an activist, educator, world traveler, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and Reentry/Criminal Justice/Hip Hop Artivist. She began her teaching career in the fall of 91’. Since that time she taught for years in various places; such as Nairobi, Kenya, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Khartoum, Sudan, Brooklyn, New York, and Houston, Texas. Her travels encompass thirty-one (36) countries and thirty-one (36) US states across which she runs her own import/export company Sikawaida Imports and the Founder of WHEW Women Healing and Empowering Women, a 501(c) (3) reentry social purpose venture confronting the intersection issues of Melanin dominant and Indigenous women in prison, and how it relates to sexual abuse, family violence, homelessness, negative impacts of misogynistic lyrics, objectification of women, and the glorification of prison culture in Hip Hop. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems University of Houston-Downtown, and a Masters in Multicultural Studies from the University !of Houston-Clear Lake. She is a wife, mother of two, and she endeavors to share her own unique perspective on the world as she has come to know it as a native from the birthplace of Hip Hop the Boogie Down Bronx, Melanin Dominant citizen of the Universe born in Amerikkka, and as a child of the African Diaspora.