Kyra D. Gaunt

Kyra D. Gaunt, TED Fellow, Ethnomusicologist, Recording Artist, Author, Social Entrepreneur

Kyra is an ethnomusicologist who Voices the Unspoken through song, scholarship and social media. Kyra is also a TED Fellow in 2009. She’s author of The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop, a 2007 Alan Merriam Prize Winner for most outstanding book in ethnomusicology.