Toni Roberts, Psycho-Spiritual Counselor , Creative Expression Specialist 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 Specialist at Help Harbor (Women's DV Shelter),The Lehman College Adult Education Program, Bronx, NY; The Bayview Correctional Facility, NYC; The Bedford Hills, NY Correctional Facility; Inwood House, NYC; Palladia, Inc., 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, at the Facebook Marketplace or by appointment at the artist's home studio.) For further information CONTACT US.