hans peter meyer: Conscious Capital 3: hanspetermeyer interviews Rha Goddess about Social Venture Institute 2009

Friday, October 02, 2009

Conscious Capital 3: hanspetermeyer interviews Rha Goddess about Social Venture Institute 2009

In this, the 3rd in a series of interviews with SVI09 participants, Rha Goddess is interviewed by hanspetermeyer about her experience at Social Venture Institute 2009 at Hollyhock on Cortes Island, BC.

Rha Goddess is CEO of Move The Crowd, a professional networking, training and development company dedicated to teaching Social Entrepreneurs of the Hip Hop Generation how to “Stay True, Get Paid and Do Good.”

Rha is a performance artist, activist and social entrepreneur. Her work has been featured in numerous international compilations, forums, and festivals. She has received rave industry reviews from Time Magazine, Ms. Magazine, XXL, Essence, The Source, among others. As CEO, of Divine Dime Entertainment, Ltd. she was one of the first women in Hip Hop to independently market and commercially distribute her music worldwide.

In her 30+ year tenure as an organizer, Rha has worked on issues of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, youth empowerment, mental health and young women’s empowerment. She is the Creator and Executive Producer of the Young Woman’s performance movement, We Got Issues! and The Hip Hop Mental Health Project.

Note on the photo:
The cover photo shows Rha on the deck at Hollyhock at the Social Venture Institute 2009 with Suzanne Siemens. (Suzanne provided the photo. She is the co-founder and co-owner of Lunapads. She has attended 4 SVIs, and each time, her experience and the impact it has had on her and on Lunapads is richer than before. Suzanne wrote about her SVI 08 experience on her lunapad blog)