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Tommacina Bell
Tommacina Bell is a Deaconess, dance instructor [4], writer of over 30 years, and teacher for 20. She has written numerous unpublished and published plays and short stories mainly for youths, and she is the author of a book titled “Walk Into Your New You (2017) ” Bell most likely adapted Aileen Fisher’s book “Those Who Risked Their Freedom: Harriet Tubman-The Second Moses” for the stage [2]. Bell is the founder and artistic director of Holy and Not Ashamed Production Ministries [3].

Biography
Tommacina Bell grew up in the South Side of Chicago and graduated from Corliss High School in Chicago in 1978 [3]. Bell has always been inspired by the kind-spiritedness of the community she grew up in, and she strives to bring the feelings of love, faith, and support that she felt in the neighborhood barbecues of her childhood to the changing world today [8]. Bell now resides in Texas where she is a Deaconess at Spirit and Life Kingdom Center [9]. Bell spends the rest of her time writing plays and doing various jobs including stage-managing at the Ensemble Theatre in Houston [5, 6, 7].

Personal Life
Bell has two cherished children and three grandchildren, and she loves to teach dance [4].