Press, Publications & Mentions

New York Amsterdam News, ‘Aissatou Bey-Grecia, a workforce powerhouse

The Urban Activist, Friends Of Morningside Park In Harlem Epitomize The Fight At The Local Scale To Invest In Communities (2020)

The Root, My Mother’s Daughter, a Multigenerational Talk About Motherhood, Part 4: Aissatou (2018)

Columbia Spectator: The Eye, Whose Park? Morningside Park in the Twenty-First Century (2017)

10th Dance and Music Festival at Kalani Honua

Community Activism & Programming

  • Juneteenth Harlem Organizing Committee

  • Founding Board Member of The Harlem Little League

  • Dance Ins

Archives + Memory Work

NYU Hemispheric Institute, “We Not New To This, We True To This” Panelist, Folklorist In Residence (2024)

Consultant, Studio Museum of Harlem (in collaboration with McKissack)

African Folkloric Movement & Dance

University of Accra (Ghana)

Folkloric Dance Department Consultant, Assistant to FulBright Scholar

2001-2002

Kalani Honua, African Dance Instructor

1983 - 1993

Memberships

Director

McKissack 2007- Present Day

DanceAfrica Council of Elders: Board Member

2020

Harlem Hospital Center (1989-2007)

Director of Injury Prevention / Strategic Planning