Pinqy Ring | ARTdustry Podcast Season 4 Episode 7

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Written By Substantial "Stan" Robinson and Rachelle Etienne-Robinson

Today’s guest is a radical, ratchet and revolutionary Puerto Rican rapper, decolonizing minds one rhyme at a time.

Born and bred in Chicago, she manifests her vision for a more just world as an MC, speaker, Hip Hop Educator and proud U.S. Hip Hop Cultural Ambassador - traveling overseas to manage and facilitate Hip Hop diplomacy programming. In 2020, she became an author, penning her experience in therapy for the second volume of Today’s Inspired Young Latina, and plays Rosina in The Rosina Project - a Hip Hop iteration of the famed opera The Barber of Seville. Collaborating with such organizations as the Universal Hip Hop Museum, Google, The Aspen Institute, Spotify, and more - Pinqy provides culturally competent creative consulting and programming for places of business looking to engage youth or explore the power of Hip Hop as a transformative tool. Pinqy Ring was a 2019 Vital Voices and TRESemmè Women's Leadership Incubator fellow, and was named Best Hip Hop Artist by the Chicago Reader in 2023. Though she is proud of her awards and accolades, Pinqy's most prized possession is the platform she’s purposing for historically excluded communities of the world. Hip Hop has taken her from the 'hood to Harvard, and she raps her legacy loudly into place while creating pathways for others to do the same.

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Substantial "Stan" Robinson and Rachelle Etienne-Robinson

Substantial Art & Music LLC (SAM) is a multimedia organization focused on providing consulting services to the visual and performing arts community. SAM was founded in 2017, by husband and wife duo Stan “Substantial” Robinson and Rachelle Etienne-Robinson. Together they provide design and consulting services to emerging and established independent artists, entrepreneurs and organizations. SAM provides professional advice and guidance through consultations, workshops, webinars as well as provide additional services like graphic/web design. SAM has facilitated workshops at Amazon headquarters in Seattle, Washington, the Hawaii State Art Museum, Pratt Institute, and Otakon. In addition, Stan and Rachelle produce and host a biweekly podcast called ARTdustry: where art meets industry. SAM has produced special events that have been featured in several media outlets like WTOP, Washington Informer, and Fox 5 DC. In 2020, SAM was named Carib Biz Network Top 50 Influential Caribbean American Entrepreneurs & Freelancers.

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