Tifara Brown
I help organizations build a culture that works.
Tifara Brown is a culture strategist, facilitator, and TEDx Speaker, culture strategist story-forward methodology has reached over 500,000 people across Fortune 500 companies, international military institutions, art and community organizations.
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TEDx Speaker
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Published Author and Librettist
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20+ Years of Artist Experience
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Fortune 500 Facilitator
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500,000 Audience Reach
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Peer-Reviewed Methodology
“Through these workshops, we imagined life beyond incarceration for the first time. Learning about opera and art outside encouraged us to dream beyond right now.”
— Student Participants, Regional Juvenile Facility
Explore Tifara’s Work
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Imagination As Infrastructure ©
A multi-session workshop experience that builds psychological safety, creative capacity, and voice equity in organizational teams.
Delivered as a half-day intensive, multi-day series, or embedded residency.
Best for: L&D teams, HR leaders, innovation departments, executive cohorts
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The Voice Equity Lab
A 90-minute structured facilitation process that brings underrepresented voices into the center of team decision-making, creative work, and culture-building.
Available as a standalone session or as part of an IAI engagement.
Best for: Team culture redesigns, leadership development programs
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Artist Residencies & Workshops
Poetry, storytelling, and performance experiences designed for schools, arts institutions, and community organizations.
Drawing on 20+ years of work across the U.S., Northern Ireland, and Ghana.
Best for: Schools, arts organizations, community programs
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Keynotes & Speaking Engagements
Custom keynote presentations and conference talks on organizational belonging and strategy for building workplaces where imagination is treated as a strategic asset.
Delivered as a 45-minute talk with Q&A
Best for: Conferences, company all-hands, university convenings, leadership retreats
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Watch Performances
With over 500,000 audience members reached through radio, television, and live performance, her work is both witnessed and felt, resonating far beyond the first listen.
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Read The Work
Published in more than 10 journals and magazines, her work lives at the intersection of story, sound, and social insight—crafted to be read slowly and remembered deeply.
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LALOVAVI
She is the librettist of LALOVAVI, an original Afrofuturist opera premiering with Cincinnati Opera in Summer 2026. Commissioned in partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
LALOVAVI: A New Afrofuturist Opera
(lah-low-VAH-vee · Tut for “love”)
World Premiere at Cincinnati Opera Summer 2026
LALOVAVI a groundbreaking Afrofuturist opera that fuses rich musical textures with a bold future narrative. Set 400 years in the future in the thriving city of Atlas (formerly Atlanta), the story follows Persephone, the youngest daughter of the city’s ruler, as she discovers a rare gene granting extraordinary vitality and must navigate betrayal, danger and the search for love and self-determination.
Presented in both English and Tut, LALOVAVI is the first opera to emerge from Cincinnati Opera’s Black Opera Project, a commissioning initiative dedicated to uplifting Black stories and creators. This visionary work places Black imagination, futurism and cultural heritage at the center of the operatic stage.
LALOVAVI invites audiences into a universe where tradition meets tomorrow and love lights the path to freedom. It’s an opera that challenges and transforms the way we experience storytelling through music.
Dates: July 9 & 11, 2026 · Venue: Music Hall · Cincinnati, OH
LALOVAVI is the first media production in history to feature the Tut language — a secret code invented by enslaved Black Americans to learn to read when it was illegal to do so.