LOVE & PEACE
DOCTOR MAAT
VISUAL ARTIST , FREELANCE WRITER,EDITOR, POET, VIDEOGRAPHER, IT INSTRUCTOR.......& NOW DELIVERING NATURAL PRODUCTS,
ONE OF A KIND JEWELRY...........
NATURAL PRODUCTS
ORIGINAL PAINTINGS & PASTELS
CRYSTAL GALLERY
ACCESSORIES
STATEMENT TREE........ BRANCH ON IT
WORDS OF DOCTOR MAAT
The ability of the human spirit to reflect order in the midst of chaos is part of the universal Spirit. Mankind is not a dysfunctional matrix of mental miasma and disharmony. With Light, Creation became aware. With Light, I have created an abundance of balance, color and order from what may have begun as nothing harmonious.
Mary Baker Eddy said, ‘Let nothing crush you. Rise immediately.’
Indeed I have. I have risen above Disability, a poverty consciousness, pain and disappointment to bring the best of my knowledge and skills to creating beautiful one-of-a-kind jewelry and multimedia art and masks on canvas board.
Moreover, I distribute information and materials to uplift and protect. I serve and protect spiritually and physically those who seek higher overstanding.
We cannot afford to let the fire of divine intelligence burn up or fizzle out from lack of use. Use it to bless ourselves and others. Return ignorance, sin, poverty, dead thoughts back to their nothingness. God reigns and we are co-Creators with Him. Do not get hung up on semantics or synonyms. God by any other name is still supreme and operates without our help or volition. Allah, Jehovah, Goddess, the Most High, Creator, Infinite, Most Merciful Father-Mother is worth studying.
Get to know this Magnificence in living, in jewelry, in art, in the planets, in natural order.
Be not afraid. Discover what makes you tick. What makes you unique. What is your purpose. What is worthy of your focus. We do not have the right to murder anyone’s Spirit. We certainly cannot kill Life that is divinely bestowed. So Live large. Do not think you were meant to live as if Life is being rationed. Breathe. Sing. Dance. Love. Be at Peace then be At One (atone for past error).
I leave you in
Love and Peace
Maat, bringing order to chaos
"The ability of the human spirit to reflect order in the midst of chaos is part of the universal Spirit. Mankind is not a dysfunctional matrix of mental miasma and disharmony. With Light, Creation became aware. With Light, I have created an abundance of balance, color and order from what may have begun as nothing harmonious.
Mary Baker Eddy, CSB said, ‘Let nothing crush you. Rise immediately.’
Indeed I have. I have risen above Disability, a poverty consciousness, racism, bigotry, unfavorable news, pain and disappointment to bring the best of my knowledge and skills to creating beautiful one-of-a-kind jewelry and multimedia art and masks on canvas board.
Moreover, I distribute information and materials to uplift and protect. I serve and protect spiritually and physically those who seek higher overstanding.
I am a real woman with a real woman-owned business with real skills despite my This-ability, a real follower of the Way who savors and reflects real Love and Peace in establishing my work and environment.
I love my Afrikan-Cherokee roots as an American who loves the real idea behind America, home of the I AM Race. (Reverse the letters in America.)
I Am Maat bringing order to chaos. “
DOCTOR AYO MAAT
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Never idle, Ayo Maat, Ph.D., a native Chicagoan, has always balanced work or business with community involvement and spirituality. Dr. Maat is a local and national community activist, educator, and organizer who lives in West Ridge. She is a visual artist and writer/editor. She lived in Rogers Park 30 years, formerly lived in Uptown and Edgewater after leaving downtown and the southside. She is the founder, former President/CEO of BNICEH (‘be nicer,”), the Black Network In Children’s Emotional Health in 1992 and IMPRUVE (Independent Movement of Paratransit Riders for Unity, Vehicles, Equality), in 2000. She graduated with a Ph.D in philosophy and Master of Science in Healing from University of Healing and a journalism and art degree with minors in accounting and studies in social science from two stints at Truman College where she also worked as a tutor in social science and English. She attended Illinois Institute of Technology for computer science and math and took business management training with various corporations and the Entrepreneurship Training Program with Uptown Hull House. She is a person who is disabled (PWD), uses a wheelchair, eats organic vegan food (mostly raw), grows an urban organic vegetable garden, rides paratransit, makes handmade jewelry one-of-a-kind, and supports green employment for PWDs, youth, seniors who desire encore careers, those who have been incarcerated, and those who live at low income. As a person who has lived in Chicago 7 decades, her experience is wide from south, west to northside: former Chicago City Colleges and Eduteach teacher, former acting chair of Chicago Together for Chicago Department of Public Health, a computer professional who was the first and only female to head the Systems Programmers Society, retired minister, artist/writer, and presented or ran special programs at NorthPoint, Ibeji Resource Center, Probation Challenge, United Church of Rogers Park, Truman College, New Concept School, Austin Library, Evanston Library, and Insight Arts. She taught at Malcolm X College, Central YMCA College, Control Data Institute and Eduteach, and was a certified IL substitute teacher. She co-led family literacy programs for Rogers Park Library; had successful ATOD (Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs) prevention programs that included Project SmokeOut in 7 neighborhoods, ”No Butts, No Booze” back to school music fests in what is now Willye White Park. Her most successful community work was producing and hosting the first and only Black Mental Health Forum at MOPD (Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities) in Feb. 1993, working with youth to deter them from shoplifting and gangs at Loyola Park, and running a smoking cessation public service campaign that culminated in a videodocumentary and in 2006 with posters and billboards posted on CTA trains and buses for one year, funded by Illinois and Chicago Departments of Public Health.
Dr. Maat brings an array of experience from early training and involvement in the civil rights movement from age 16, paralegal training at Uptown People’s Law Center, accessible housing law training by John Marshall Law School, 14 days of intense community organizing training from 12-17 hours, including weekends as a fellow at the Advocacy Institute in Washington DC in 1993 by former FCC chair Mike Pertschuk et al, 14 weeks of community organizing training by Hope Leadership Institute in which President Barack Obama, then IL State Senator, was one of her instructors, and 2 days of training in community and political advocacy in 2009 by Wellstone Action and 1Sky at Loyola University. Dr. Maat has used her degrees, diplomas and certificates of training in journalism, computer science, business, health, philosophy, metaphysics, Copology, PTSD training, wraparound services, holistic healthcare, project management, entrepreneurship, prevention, and community organizing/advocacy to provide support or direction to several other organizations: 21st Century Classroom, the Alliance for Community Services, various independent political campaigns, AYLP, Access Living, the Green Think Tank for the Disability Community, the Soular Car Project, Child and Adolescent LAN 72, the National Paratransit Peoples Movement Assembly at The US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, Chicago Green Fest at Navy Pier, and Loyola Park Advisory Council. She researches, lectures, advises, and helps to develop business plans for the disability community and local small businesses.
Though seldom awarded in the disability and education fields, she has been awarded for her community work in social and economic justice and disability rights as a local Every Day Hero on October 7, 2016 the Toby Prinz-Dovie Thurman award by NorthSide Action for Justice (NA4J), the (female) Role Model of the Year by Ibeji Resource Center in February 2015, Black Woman of the Year for Media by Woman to Woman in February 2012, and the Spirit of Volunteerism award by Rogers Park Community Council in 2003.
In 2016, she ran as a delegate in the March 15, 2016 primary as a delegate in the 9th IL Congressional District. She is committed to supporting Bernie Sanders.
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