Tasneem Ansariyah Grace
Vice President, Mosaic Changemakers
A child of the Great Migration raised in Central New York and seasoned in the South, Tasneem Ansariyah Grace is a humanities scholar and performance artist who facilitates engagements that explore the soul connection of our collective humanity. She currently serves as vice president of Mosaic Changemakers, a local nonprofit that seeks to weave a better South by uplifting, growing and connecting leaders of color.
Before Mosaic, Tasneem served at the Nashville Public Library as an associate director of programming in the Civil Rights Center. For nearly 20 years she worked as a newspaper journalist and has worked with several non-profits — in Syracuse, NY; Nashville, TN and Belize, Central America — as a community engagement manager, content creator and editor.
As a student and teacher of the global struggles for liberation, she continues to use conversation and stories as a pathway to developing, and sustaining, community. Her writing and performances have been featured in local productions of “How to Catch A Flying Woman,” with Actors Bridge Ensemble. She is an inaugural cast member and featured writer in the stage production and anthology “Listen to Your Mother.”