Yoga + Creativity + Internet Geek = Ananda Leeke. Leeke is a lawyer turned “Jill of many trades”: innerpreneur, author, artist, coach, and yoga teacher. She is also the founder of the Digital Sisterhood Network, #DigitalSisterhood Wednesdays on Twitter, and Digital Sisterhood Month, an annual celebration for social media women in December. Her mission is “Empowering U2BU through creativity coaching, Reiki, self-care, social media, volunteerism, and yoga.”

She serves as a Blogger Ambassador for the Heart of Haiti Campaign, a partnership between Macy’s, Fairwinds Trading, and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund that was created to provide sustainable income to Haitian artisans impacted by the 2010 earthquake. In February 2011, she travelled to Haiti as a Heart of Haiti Blogger Ambassador. Black Enterprise named her as one of the Black Women in Tech You Should Follow on Twitter in July 2011.

Leeke has served as a moderator, panelist, speaker, workshop facilitator, and/or yoga teacher for the Blogalicious Weekend Conference and DC Meet Ups, Blogging While Brown, BlogHer, Capital BookFest, DC Digital Capital Week, Feminist Majority, Holy Cross Hospital, Howard University, Ignite DC, Latinos in Social Media, Metropolitan Baptist Church, She’s Geeky, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Spelman College, Social Justice Camp II, Society for the Arts and Healthcare, Vision Quest Retreats, Washington Hospital Center, Washington National Cathedral’s Sacred Circles Conferences, WOMANIFESTING, Women in Film & Television Atlanta, and YWCA.

She penned That Which Awakens Me: A Creative Woman’s Poetic Memoir of Self-Discovery (2009) and Love’s Troubadours – Karma: Book One, a novel (2007). Her poetry appeared in Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century (2002). Her six-word memoir was published in It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure (2010). She is currently writing Digital Sisterhood (2012), a memoir.

Since 1995, her mixed media collages, wire sculptures, and paintings have been exhibited in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, New York City, North Carolina, and Kentucky. Her artwork was featured in Heart and Soul in 2001 and often reflects her passion for issues affecting people of color and women. In 2002, she created and donated Our Womanist Spirit and I am my sista’s keeper wire sculpture collections to The Women’s Collective, an HIV/AIDS direct services organization. She has worked as an artist-in-residence for Smith Center for Healing and the Arts at Howard University Hospital (2003-2009), and is currently serving wounded warriors at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Leeke is a graduate of Morgan State University (B.A. in French, 1986), Howard University School of Law (J.D., 1989), and Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M. in Securities and Financial Regulation, 1991). Her memberships include the National League of American Pen Women, Yoga Alliance, Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington’s Business Volunteer Program, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., All Souls Unitarian Church, and Insight Meditation Community of Washington’s People of Color Sangha. She lives in Washington, D.C.

1) Books (available on Amazon.com and other online book sites)

a. Love's Troubadours - Karma: Book One (August 2007)

b. That Which Awakens Me: A Creative Woman's Poetic Memoir of Self-Discovery (November 2009)

2) Anthology

a. Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century edited by E. Ethelbert Miller

As a creativity coach, I help writers and other creative professionals unblock their creativity with yoga, mindfulness meditation, mantra chanting, Reiki healing touch, expressive arts, ritual celebration, prayers, affirmations, and journaling. I also help writers and creative professionals develop and implement social media strategies that market their work.