Karega Bailey
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Social Impact
Karega Bailey is an angel parent, a social-emotional healing practitioner and an award-winning educator, recording artist, and lead vocalist of SOL Development. He is a nationally renowned Peace Advocate and the Founding Dean of Culture of Roses in Concrete Community School, a K-8 social justice performing arts school in Oakland, California. In addition to his work in education, he is the author of SOL Affirmations and he is a co-founder and lead facilitator for BE-Imaginative, a transformative safe space lead by a collective of artists and activists dedicated to disrupting gun violence and healing Black and Brown communities through innovative multidimensional storytelling. Evidence of his work, of which has received national acclaim, can be found in the Emmy award-winning film Dear Beloved: Music & Storytelling with SOL Development & BE-IMAGINATIVE. Karega Bailey is also the co-host of the AMBIE nominated podcast SOL Affirmations with Karega and Felicia on the Black Love Podcast Network.