Audra Almond-Harvey
Public Speaker at Independent
Executive Director of abrasiveMedia; writer, speaker, consultant.
Audra Almond-Harvey is the founding and presiding Executive Director of abrasiveMedia (https://www.abrasivemedia.org/), which has facilitated over 500 artists since 2004, helping them grow, connect, produce, and give back to their communities. She is currently working on a collection of poetry and short stories about her life entitled Instead of Dying, I Wrote This Book. You can find her new author page and blog at https://aalmondharvey.com/.

Audra specializes in world-building which she expresses through writing, design, event planning, and creative production, and in 2017 crafted the narrative for HAUNTED, a Southern-Gothic site-responsive performance that was not a play in Nashville, TN. (www.abrasivemedia.org www.hauntedproject.com). This year, abrasiveMedia's primary creative work is comprehensively auditing and analyzing the organization at every level and improving policies, procedures, and workflows so that aM might healthily enter the next phase of growth. 

Audra has over 20 years of experience in leading teams of people in creative and philanthropic work, managing creative projects, mentoring, consulting, writing, and public speaking. Before developing disabilities Audra was a dancer, aerialist, and weekend mid-packer. Now, Audra utilizes the power of her own personal story in advocating for people affected by disabilities and chronic illnesses, and is on the board of Fashion is For Every Body (FIFEB, https://www.fashionisforeverybody.com/). FIFEB is an organization founded by Alicia Searsy (spashionista.com).
Independent
Audra Almond-Harvey once gave a 45 minute sermon complete with references with only three minutes of advance notice, and kindly requests to never do that again.

Audra speaks on building relational bridges, accessing your superpowers, owning your power, and reinventing yourself after trauma.
Public Speaker
Poetry, nonfiction, and essays
Audra has long envied
the authors of 
myth
and dreamed 
of living in
ancient times
(my words would shape
our most primal
memories).

https://aalmondharvey.com/
Greater Nashville Area, TN
Writer
Racial Equity in Arts Leadership (REAL) with The Curb Center (Vanerbilt) and Metro Arts Commission.
In 2015, REAL brought together twenty arts leaders, including individual artists and representatives of the Nashville Symphony, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville Opera, Nashville Repertory Theater, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville Ballet, National Museum of African American Music, DancEast, Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society, Nashville in Harmony, Intersection, Southern Word, and SeedSpace. These leaders met for intensive workshops each month at the Curb Center and grounded their discussions in an innovative curriculum that reviewed research and leading practices in the field on racial and cultural equity. These discussions revealed the impact of racism on organizations and art forms and created a peer network dedicated to positive change.

Since 2015, the Curb Center has partnered with the Metro Nashville Arts Commission (Metro Arts) to develop and implement the Racial Equity in Arts Leadership (REAL) program, a series of workshops and seminars designed to drive racial equity in Nashville’s arts sector. The program brings together arts administrators, executive leaders of cultural institutions, community-based arts organizations, and individual artists for regular seminars and organizational workshops that provide insight into how institutional practices such as hiring processes and arts programming choices can advance racial equity in our community. REAL participants meet regularly to address challenges they encounter as they work to build more equitable practices in their institutions.

As part of the REAL program, the Curb Center also sponsors public conversations with national leaders in the fields of arts-based civic engagement and cultural policy to address matters of racial equity. Read more about how the cadre is organized, characteristics of cadre members, and questions and topics posed. A third learning cadre will be launching in early 2018.
Participant
abrasiveMedia
https://www.linkedin.com/company/abrasivemedia
Direct the strategic development of abrasiveMedia, manage our teams, mentor individual artists, consult for other organizations.
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Executive Director
(Multiple Clients)
Utilizing my skills gained as a writer, designer, and pastor, I help individuals and organizations work to craft their own story and advocate for their mission.
Greater Nashville Area, TN
Independant Organizational & Creative Advisor
Company Rose
Nashville, TN
Dancer, Consultant
FALL
Nashville, Tennessee
Dancer
The Anchor Fellowship
Associate Pastor
abrasiveInk
Our company does Brand Consulting and Design and Graphic Design. Through abrasiveInk I have developed brand systems and provided individual services to complement an existing brand.
Artistic & Creative Director
Renascent Productions
Producer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bailey-lawson
Nashville, TN
Bailey Lawson
Vice President of Operations at A&M Agency
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordon-grigg
Nashville Metropolitan Area
Gordon Grigg
FOLLOW ME: Keynote Speaker, Entrepreneur, Consultant, Life Coach, Business Strategist, Marketing and Social Media Consultant, LinkedIn Pro, CEO of The Premier Media Group; Premier Builders Group, and Gordon Grigg, LLC,
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelk-mk-b1ab7540
Ford City, PA
MichaelK MK
Independent Music Professional
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-ballard-85188583
Los Angeles, CA
Brenda Ballard
actress
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-vincler-094b4b6
Redwood City, CA
Jim Vincler
Business-Writing Coach and Trainer; Co-owner at Vincler Communications, Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vee-drummond-30707a8
Bellevue, WA
Vee Drummond
Associate at New Earth
https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-fileccia-7095901b
Davidson County, TN
Frank Fileccia
Independent Music Professional
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erica-glidewell-b5142b3
Nashville, TN
Erica Glidewell
Sr. Director, Events& Partnerships at BMI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-brotan
Murfreesboro, TN
Grant Brotan
Video Editor at simpliHŌM
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-munro-08466b61
West Palm Beach, FL
Thomas Munro
Attorney - Of Counsel at Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel
Attorney - Partner at Foley & Lardner LLP (Retired)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-picker-33774421
Brookline, MA
Alejandro Picker
Co-Founder at QTC LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/art-dickerson-5a373514
Fort Worth, TX
Art Dickerson
Songwriter - DiamondBlue Music
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhenderson
Nashville, TN
Brad Henderson
Brand Messaging: Strategy, Deck Building, and Creative Copywriting.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-moore-3ab083158
Nashville, TN
Justin Moore
Co-Founder/ Lead Developer at KICKapps llc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaun-o-sullivan-b6125b7
Los Angeles, CA
Shaun O'Sullivan
Film, Television & Video Producer / Writer / Editor / Production Executive at      O'Sullivan Pictures
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisrudisill
Charlotte Metro
Christopher Rudisill
journalism, art & cultural history
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-utman-randall-015a85aa
Washington County, RI
Lisa Utman Randall
Executive Director at The United Theatre
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-callahan-gelter
Brattleboro, VT
Jessica Gelter
Selectboard Member at Town of Brattleboro & Executive Director of Arts Alive!
Kat Jones
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Audra recently did some art for a musical release.  She worked under a very short deadline and provided beautiful results.  I will definitely use her services again. Keri Utley
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Audra is professional and detailed.
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On Silence, and the Fear of Returning to the Way Things Were
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Leadership is not about being the best. Leadership is about making everyone else better.