Book Melany
COACHING
SPEAKING
TEACHING
SPOKEN WORD
Public Speaker
Ms. Bell is commissioned to speak on Nutrition & Health, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion as well as the Arts & Sciences. She is a voice & speech trainer and engaging Spoken Word Artist.
Notably speaking commissions: King County’s Anita Whitfield, Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer (CEIO) Director of the Office of Equity, Racial and Social Justice & Gloria Briggs, Program Manager, The African-American Writers Alliance –Spoken Word Artist, Co-Chair, & Diversity Trainer, Town Hall Seattle, Boeing Museum of Flight, Elliott Bay Books, ARTE NOIR, 4Culture’s - Poets in Public Spotlight Poet, Ase Theater, Washington Hall, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Ashland, ACT Portland, OR. The Ahmanson Theater- Los Angeles, The Globe Theater San Diego, CA, , Seattle Repertory Theater, Intiman Theater/Cornish Playhouse, Alice B. Theater, Tacoma Actors Guild, Douglas Truth Library (Black Activism in Print - permanent collection), Central Library -Seattle, Verbal Oasis Poets Festival, Path with Art – Spoken Word Installation, Podcasts: Creative Mornings. Dr. Pat Show, Clean Greens Radio, & Take Notice
Training:
B.F.A., Theatre @Purchase College of the Arts (SUNY at Purchase, NY)
Continuing Ed. Trauma-Informed Care - Dr. Tasha Golden, Hafeeza Ture @ZOLA Grief training
Continuing Ed. Ableism -Informed – Dr. Elizabeth Ralston
Continuing Ed. Diversity – Aaron Pina @Antropolicy
Melany Bell: We are Living Water
Melany Bell (they/them) is a Seattle native Teacher/Artist. After 27 years of performance and Production, they shifted gears into writing and Teaching. They hold 3 non-traditional Masters Certifications in Nutrition: Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Gut and Psychology Syndrome Practitioner, and Applied Kinesiology. These tools and a general thirst for knowledge from physics to gardening have led to their most recent writing direction. The ‘IBU, School of Thought’ Manual is a creation shared with and inspired by their eldest Sister Dione Lucero, an Educator. The team works together to create new learning and Teaching strategies for the next generation of Educators and Inventors.