Toni Roberts, Spiritual Mentor and Women's Empowerment Coach, is a former educator and corporate writer-producer. Ms. Roberts has served as a Counselor and as a Consultant Expressive Therapist at The Lehman College Adult Education Program, Bronx, NY; The Bedford Hills, NY Correctional Facility; Inwood House, NYC; Palladia, Inc., NYC; The Amethyst Women's Project, NYC; and other educational and cultural institutions. Roberts is a past mayoral appointee to the NYC Commission on the Status of Women and founder of womanwrite and The Center for Human Development. She is also a recipient of a NY Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowship and three  Bronx Council on the Arts Fiction Awards, the most recent in 2008.

Toni Roberts enjoys a fulfilling life as a mother and grandmother; a novelist and author of children's books; a visual artist, drummer, magazine article writer, photographer and poet. Roberts also handcrafts Bold-of-Spirit, one-of-a-kind necklaces of semi-precious gemstones and other natural materials. (Bold-of-Spirit necklaces are  available for purchase on this site or by appointment at the artist's home studio. For further information Email: troberts@livingfromtheinsideout.org.)