Thomas Kneeland is an award-winning scholar, author, poet, writer, educator, and speaker whose creative and academic research explores ancestry, ecological memory, and the effects of intergenerational trauma in Black, Afro-Latine, and Afro-Indigenous communities. He is deeply committed to making space for voices of those who have been historically marginalized by teaching creative writing workshops in the Indianapolis community and beyond.
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Thomas Kneeland is an award-winning scholar, author, poet, writer, educator, and speaker whose creative and academic research explores ancestry, ecological memory, and the effects of intergenerational trauma in Black, Afro-Latine, and Afro-Indigenous communities. He is deeply committed to making space for voices of those who have been historically marginalized by teaching creative writing workshops in the Indianapolis community and beyond.
To aid in the formation of his creative and academic contributions, Kneeland has received grants and fellowships from the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) as well as the IU Indianapolis Arts & Humanities Institute (IAHI). He was a recipient of a 2024 CICF Artist Ambassador Travel Grant and was awarded a 2024 Speculative Play & Just Futurities Fellowship from IAHI.
Recently named a 2025 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Kneeland served as a Writing Faculty member for the LEDA Scholars Aspects of Leadership Summer Institute at Princeton University before joining the Department of Humanities at Anderson University as an Assistant Professor of English. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in critically-acclaimed journals including Prairie Schooner, Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, The Rumpus, Modern Language Studies Journal, and elsewhere.
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Motivational: Steve Harvey, David Goggins, Eric Thomas, Will Smith, Les Brown
Poetry: Yona Harvey, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Tracy K. Smith, Eugene Gloria, Joshua Bennett, Yusef Komunyakaa
Microphone or Lapel Mic
Sound System
Podium (mobile or stationary)
Bottled Water (room temp)
Preparation Room
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