Press
Co-facilitated a six-week Creative Entrepreneur Incubator Project.
Santa Fe (2022)
"West Coast MC Raashan Ahmad presents his new album, The Sun"
Featured article in Pan-African Music (2019)
"US artist Raashan Ahmad on exploring different genres"
Live interview on France 24, reaching over 20 million viewers (2019)
School presentations and performances in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Oakland, Poland, Tokyo, Algeria, Spain, Australia, West Africa, Morocco, France, the UK, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Bosnia, and Serbia.
(2005-2019)
Workshop/performance for youth refugees from Syria, Sudan, and Iran.
(France) (2017)
Spearheaded annual back-to-school backpack and hygiene kit drive for Santa Fe youth in collaboration with Communities in Schools.
(2019-2021)
Collaborated in the development of Sista Circle Summer Program, serving Black and gender expansive teen girls in Santa Fe.
(2021-2022)
Awarded "Album of the Year"
Hangtime Music Awards (Marseille France) (2011)
"Bringing light into the darkness" World Music Matters spotlight on RFI
France, Africa, Europe, (2019)
Featured at the BBC Radio's "Worldwide Awards" in London.
(2010)
Workshop, “1-2-3 Rap,” teaching English using hip hop pedagogy.
Paris, France (2015)
Producer and host of live storytelling series, “I Got a Story to Tell,” centering on the lives of BIPOC Santa Feans.
(2019-2020)
Producer and Director of “Black Story|Black Song,” a Black History Month presentation and curriculum distributed locally by the New Mexico Public Education Department and made free and available nationally via YouTube.
(2020)
Headline performance w/ the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia & Choir.
(2016)