Founder & CEO

Dr. Mwangaza Michael-Bandele is a veteran educator, facilitator, family youth counselor, college lecturer, and higher education administrator—is the founder and CEO of the Blacknificent Life! education and digital media complex. Understanding self-identity as a decisive determinant of individual and group behavior, Michael-Bandele specializes in cultivating healthy Black identity as a catalyst for personal growth and fulfillment. Leveraging her past Radio One weekly show, she uses historical knowledge of Black triumph, to inform, celebrate, and facilitate living an magnificent—indeed Blacknificent Life!

Mostly—as mother, grandmother, and a soul consciously beckoning the highest life-force from all human kind, Dr. Michael-Bandele is a proud facilitator of the best—indeed magnificence of Black people. She ventures to honor the extraordinary strength, resilience, and creativity people who identify as Black have demonstrated over time, while unveiling their tremendous and ongoing contributions to a world trained not to see.

Dr. Mwangaza Michael-Bandele

Founder & CEO