An established Hip-Hop emcee for the last twenty years and a cultivator of the culture, Mikal is the producer and co-curator of the highly popular “Word. Sound. Power.” The Brooklyn Academy of Music's Hip Hop/Spoken Word performance. Also a scholar and essayist his publishing credits include the journal “Word Beats & Life” and St. James Encyclopedia for Hip-Hop Culture. He was a co-editor of “Hip-Hop Language Arts: Thematic Textual Analysis” on Street Smart Press and currently is the community partner on the editorial board for Excellence and Equity in Education at the University of Amherst. He's taught, lectured, and written about Hip-Hop pedagogy and anthropology at the African Diaspora Conference in Brazil, The Shoko Festival in Zimbabwe, The University of Dortmund's “Hip-Hop” school, and numerous other American colleges and universities.