Jacinta V. White, a passionate advocate for creativity, combines her artistic vision with her professional expertise and dedication to community change. She is renowned for her work in enhancing the understanding of the arts' role and value in healing and community building.
Holding a BA in Speech Communications from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an MPA in Nonprofit Management from Georgia State University, Jacinta redirected her passion for art and community into founding The Word Project. Through this venture, she offers writing and creative workshops that assist individuals and groups in addressing challenging issues. Additionally, The Word Project publishes Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, an international online quarterly.
As a corporate trainer, initially with Forsyth Tech Community College and now with her own firm, Deeper Dive Consulting, Jacinta collaborates with various organizations and companies—including Spiro Coaching, Liz deWet, UNC School of the Arts, Duke University Health System, Chevron, and Johnson & Johnson—providing leadership development, retreat facilitation, and coaching services.
For more information, consider visiting the websites of The Word Project and Deeper Dive Consulting.
Poetry
Jacinta has studied Poetry Therapy with Dr. Sherry Reiter of the Creative Righting Center and has facilitated alongside of nationally renowned John Fox of the Institute for Poetic Medicine. She has studied poetry with the likes of Terrance Hayes, Stuart Dischell, Cecilia Woloch, and Morri Creech. A teacher of "poetry as healer," Jacinta has worked with nearly 50 organizations (see list here) using poetry as a catalyst for self-discovery and healing!
Jacinta's latest collection of poems, Resurrecting the Bones: Born from a Journey through African American Churches & Cemeteries of the Rural South (Press 53), was published Sept. 2019, and is receiving wide attention. Find out more about that here!
Her chapbook, broken ritual was published by Finishing Line Press (2012), and she's a contributor to My Soul to His Spirit: Soulful Writings of African American Daughters to Their Fathers (SoulDictates, 2005), and editor of Walking With God (Duncan & Duncan, 1996).
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Recipient, City of Winston-Salem Outstanding Women Leaders Award, 2020
Recipient, 100 W Corsicana Residency, TX, 2017
Recipient, The Palm Beach Poetry Festival African American Fellowship, 2017
Recipient, Duke Energy Regional Grant, supported by The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, Duke Energy and the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, 2016-17
Grant, The Institute for Poetic Medicine, Juvenile Detention Center Poetry Series, 2011
Partial scholarship, Transformative Language Arts Conference, Vermont, 2010
Partial scholarship, National Association of Poetry Therapy, 2009
First place award winner in poetry, Press 53, 2008