Tulani Kinard holds many titles, but she is best known as an ordained interfaith minister, vocalist, and author. Kinard in her role as an interfaith minister speaks motivation, growth, and empowerment into her community and has become known to captivate an audience with her words of wisdom. Like her spiritual leadership, Kinard’s poetry and music tell fierce stories of love, peace, transformation, activism, and enlightenment. Her music takes the power of words and interlocks them with strong and smooth tones with intent to change lives.

Kinard is best known in her musical career as a former member of Sweet Honey in the Rock— three-time Grammy Award nominated a cappella ensemble of Black women who express their history through song, dance, and sign. As an author, Tulani Kinard broke out with her beauty-culture how-to book, No Lye! The African American Woman’s Guide to Natural Hair Care.

As a natural beauty pioneer, and owner of the first natural Black hair salon in Brooklyn, NY, Kinard is dedicated to the growth of coils, curls, and locks, as well as the growth for the people that have them. Her commitment to ensuring the success of the natural hair community led her to write legislation to protect the rights of hair braiders, lockticians, and other stylists.