Tomayia Colvin - Empowering Diversity & Inclusion

Tomayia Colvin is a photographer, educator, speaker, author, magazine publisher and conference founder with a PhD in educational leadership. She’s the founder of Tomayia Colvin Education, an online community created to empower Black and photographers of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and other marginalized groups. She created The Cookout, one part photography conference and one part family cookout with bomb potato salad. Tomayia authored the best-selling children’s book Mya’s Big Adventures: Career Day and is nationally published High School Senior Portrait (and Wedding) Photographer.

In this episode Tomayia shares the importance of being a living example and mentor for her children. We explore her inner teacher from playing school as a kid, being a middle and high school teacher, launching her own education platform and creating spaces for others to teach, mentor, network and build community. We discuss the need for The Cookout conference with an all Black speaker line up of mostly women filling a void in the industry with a safe and comfortable environment. If you want to know how she balances it all, what she tells herself in the face of fear, this is a must-listen episode.

This is We Are Photographers with Tomayia Colvin and this is her story.

Connect with Tomayia Colvin at

tomayiacolvineducation.com, FB Group, IG @tomayiacolvineducation and tomayiacolvin.com, IG @tomayiacolvin, FB Tomayia Colvin

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