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Manny Faces

AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST | AUTHOR | CULTURAL CONSULTANT

LOCATION:

Douglasville, Georgia

speaker fee range:

$500 - $30,000

Manny Faces is an award-winning journalist, speaker, and cultural strategist who helps organizations remix how they innovate, educate, and uplift by unlocking the untapped potential of Hip Hop culture. He is the host of the acclaimed podcast Hip Hop Can Save America! and author of the Cornel West–endorsed book Hip Hop Can Save America! Inspiration for the Nation from a Culture of Innovation, where he spotlights the often-overlooked ways Hip Hop drives fresh solutions in education, health, social justice, leadership, and beyond.

His work bridges disciplines, dismantles silos, and challenges assumptions about culture’s role in advancing progress. With more than 25 years of experience in journalism, media, and community engagement, Manny has collaborated with mission-driven organizations and spoken at universities and conferences worldwide. He connects insight and storytelling in a way that equips audiences to challenge old assumptions and embrace bold solutions.

Hip Hop Can Save America! Social, Political and Economic Inspiration From a Culture of Innovation

This presentation explores inspiring accounts of historical and ongoing work of academics, counselors, teaching artists, and activists utilizing Hip Hop music and culture in unique ways that are making a powerful, positive impact on American society.

Hip Hop Can Hack Everything! Inspiration for the Technology Industry From a Culture of Innovation

This presentation delivers compelling examples of how technology has historically intersected with the world’s most dominant youth culture, and how that culture is uniquely positioned to help spark ingenuity across the tech sector, increasing innovation, fostering diversity and inclusivity, and creating new, measurable impact in powerful ways.

Hip Hop Means Business! Economic Empowerment Lessons From a Culture of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

This presentation provides inspiring business lessons that can be learned from the world’s most dominant youth culture, providing a roadmap for any commercial enterprise seeking to increase innovation, open eyes to new perspectives, or open doors into new markets, while encouraging an authentic and meaningful approach to diversity, inclusivity and belonging.

Still Fighting The Power Hip Hop’s Necessary Role in the Ongoing Battle For Social Justice

This inspiring presentation examines the role of arts and culture — specifically Hip Hop — in efforts to promote equality and battle against injustice. Audiences will gain a greater understanding of how Hip Hop music, culture, and spirit have traditionally influenced social issues, what might be hindering the artform’s potential to affect change, and why current and future social justice efforts must include a comprehensive understanding, and inclusion, of Hip Hop culture.