Reggie Kee (d.b.a. Reggie Legend) is the author of over 18000 poems and haiku. Reggie has had his work featured on several online websites and forums for the latter part of two decades.
Seeking to increase his platform as a motivational speaker and leadership workshop facilitator, Reggie began writing social commentary known as poetitorials: a combination of poems and editorials. These writings have gone on to spark dialogue in forums ranging from sites such as allhiphop.com to collegiate student newspapers and composition courses at Columbia College Chicago.
He is the author of several self-published books: Steel Waters VOLUME I: DUPLicate AuthentICITY, Defacing the Music: What Slips into the Grooves Once God Gets Removed and Common Genius, Uncommon Destiny.
As a youth advocate and motivational speaker, Reggie tours local school districts motivating a variety of students with material geared towards specific needs. Reggie offers direction to students in college-preparatory classes based on his own experiences as both a student and financial aid advisor through a series of workshops. The content of his newest book enhances said workshops by exploring the status of the word “genius” as an accessible commodity which exists in all of us through the formula:
GENIUS = PASSION + TALENT + PURPOSE
For young men who find it difficult to gain traction in school at the elementary and middle school level, Reggie created the Kings’ Speech program to instill purpose and a sense of ownership in the one resource that makes us all rich: words.
With the motto “Crowning Achievement One KING at a Time,” the students learn that they can influence their environment and determine how well they rule as kings by how well they manage the richness found in the power of words.
Reggie married his wife, Quiana Kee, in 2004 and is the father of two young children who are also self-published authors, as well: Josiah Kee and Paige Turner. He and his wife were featured columnists for The Chicago Defender and are co-founders of Ink Well Spoken and Manu Forti Ministries; which serve as the marketplace and faith-based initiatives for motivational speaking, respectively.
Reggie studied at the University of Delaware; receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering in 2000. He went on to earn a Master’s in Business Administration with a concentration in Leadership Management in 2006. Having spent over a decade of his career in the field of post-secondary education, he has honed his expertise and best practices in customer service to equip students and families with sound college preparatory skills and the ability to identify resources and effective strategies for financial planning. Reggie and Quiana’s philosophy for Ink Well Spoken is:
“Endowing Worth with the Power of Words” ™