Shawn Nealy has been walking with the drum for the past 6 years & actively apprenticing & performing throughout the Bay Area (2 years) with Afia Walking Tree, learning traditional rhythms from West Africa, as well as learning how to utilize the drums for healing & liberation.
As a progressiv, social justice educator, she continually introduces her high school students to the power of the drum and its history of empowerment for African people as a nourishing tool to cultivate change.