Mama Edie is also a published writer, percussionist, and speech and language pathologist, and has provided international storytelling performances and workshops to parents, teachers, children and various professionals since 1989.

Affiliations:

• National Storytelling Network
• National Association of Black Storytellers
• ASE: The Chicago Association of Black Storytellers
• Northlands Storytelling Network

Program Themes:

• Self-Love and Self-Empowerment
• Of Beauties and Beasts
• Finding the Light Inside
• Exploring Stories Behind Works of Art
• Speech and Language Development
• Healing Through Language, Silence and Sound
• Kwanzaa Celebrations

Venues:

• Public Libraries, Churches & Children's Hospitals
• Elementary & High School Assembly Programs
• DuSable Museum of African American History
• The Art Institute of Chicago
• Field Museum of Natural History
• Chicago Historical Society
• Museum of Science and Industry
• Northwestern Illinois University Law School
• Argonne National Laboratories
• Chicago Black United Front
• Black Expo Chicago
• Adult Reading Literacy Programs
• African Festival of the Arts, Chicago
• Chicago Coalition for Abused Women
• Programs for Combatting Drug Abuse
• Chicago Children's Museum
• Madison Children's Museum, Wisconsin
• Anti-Defamation League Unity in Diversity Conference (Keynote Speaker, 1997)
• Evanston Annual Ethnic Arts Festival
• Chinese American Service League
• International Black Women's Congress (Presenter/Performer, Orlando, Florida)
• Demonstration School for the Deaf & Blind, Mampong, Ghana, West Africa
• Chicago-Accra Sister Cities Committee Dinner, Home of Mayor Nat Amarteifio, Accra, Ghana, West Africa)