About the Author

Carol O'Connor is the president of the Rhyme-N-Reason Foundation, a non-profit organization that assists talented youth from Jackson, Mississippi, to Cape Coast, Ghana, focusing on education via hip-hop. Ms. O'Connor has spent most of her life in education, teaching both high school and college level English courses. Her PhD work at the Jackson State University focused on hip-hop and education. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a M. Ed from the University of Guam. She has lived all around the United States and abroad in Ghana, Ethiopia, Dubai.