Trelani Michelle

a writer and afrofuturist anthropologist who connects the dots across the African diaspora to prove #WeAllCousins

We All Cousins – TedX

Trelani Michelle explores the power of customs and what they represent. In her travels, she found that even the simple greeting, “Cousin!” was a way of connecting with those like her. When she gets to know a neighbor who on the surface couldn’t be more different than her, she is challenged by her ideas about connection in surprising ways.

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Award-Winning Writer

History, Culture + Self-Expression

A bridge, a time traveler, a griot, djeli with a message in the form of a story. And I’ma tell it with passion and with excellence.

Gullah Geechee Home Cooking

Co-authored by Trelani Michelle, this cookbook has snippets of the Meggett family history on Edisto Island, stretching back to the 19th century. Rich in both flavor and history, Meggett’s Gullah Geechee Home Cooking is a testament to the syncretism of West African and American cultures that makes Edisto Island so unique.

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Krak Teet

The first-hand accounts in this book are transcribed directly from the grandchildren of the enslaved who laid the city’s treasured cobblestone roads and introduced its famous red rice and deviled crabs. Those who lived through what can be considered the country’s second wave of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

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Women Who Ain’t Afraid

You will be guided and inspired toward meditation and prayer in ways that bring God back to your table with open conversations about how you really feel and what you really want. These pages are filled with dialogue that kindles mental and spiritual healing by opening your heart to what Spirit has to say to you and through you.

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Founder of Krak Teet

501c3 org based in Savannah that preserves culture by gathering oral histories of elders, artists, and healers; offering workshops, panels, and speaking engagements around history and culture; and facilitating summer camps that sits teens down with elders

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