Imani Ma’at AknhmenRa Amen Taylor is a Detroit-based multidisciplinary artist, educator, choreographer, and cultural architect whose work lives at the intersection of African diasporic movement, ritual, and collective healing. Grounded in traditional West African drum and dance, her practice honors ancestral intelligence as both pedagogy and medicine—movement as memory, rhythm as archive.

She serves as West African Dance Director at Detroit School of the Arts, where she teaches African dance as both performance discipline and embodied curriculum, cultivating leadership, wellness, and cultural literacy among youth artists across disciplines. Imani is the Founder and Executive Director of Flip the Switch 529, a creative-wellness and cultural production platform dedicated to youth empowerment, intergenerational mentorship, and community restoration through the arts.

A 2024 Kresge Arts Fellow, her work has been featured on Detroit PBS, WDET-FM, Live in the D, FOX 2 Detroit, and at TEDxDetroit. She has led performances and educational initiatives across the city, including the African World Festival Youth Stage, while guiding students toward international cultural exchange in Guinea, West Africa.

Imani’s work is devotional, visionary, and unapologetically rooted—inviting audiences to remember what the body already knows and to move, together, toward wholeness.