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I’m g’beda Tonya Lyles, a podcast editor and producer, storycrafter, and content creator who collaborates with organizations and private clients to tell their stories. I bring a background in creative and performing arts to every project, using scriptwriting, editing, and sound design to boost podcast production, audience engagement, and creative problem-solving.
From field research to community storytelling, I craft immersive audio experiences across live performance, podcasts, and digital media, always prioritizing authentic voice and meaningful impact.
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Spanish; Castilian
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Work Experience
Healing Artist at Samadhi Divine Medicine
December 31, 2022 - October 10, 2025Acupuncture, Chinese medicine, herbal prescription, food therapy, sound therapy, reflexology, meditation, yoga, qigong, and maternal/fetal health.
Podcast Producer at Blue Horizon Texas
October 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Podcast project development, Rural Democrat Candidate Archival Project, script writer, interviewer, editor, audio producer, and podcast creator.
Fellow / Podcast Project Developer at Texas Folklife Fellow
September 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Podcast project development, West Texas borderland Mariachi field researcher, data collection, interviewer, and podcast creator.
Performer at History of the Griots. Chaffey College
February 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Performance and panel discussion for Black History Celebration.
Performer / Producer at Soul Note Series III
September 1, 2021 - October 10, 2025Third year project/Virtual three-part performance; Poetry Roundtable, Walking Testimony, Journey to the Cross Roads Blues Frequency Solo Show. Digital film production, audio, and editing.
Contributor / Artist at New Media Art and Sound Summit NMASS fest Project
January 1, 2021 - PresentDigital photography, videography, and sound artistry composition sampling for digital reimagining by Mickey Delp.
Contributor at Collective Healing Initiative Anthology
November 1, 2021 - October 10, 2025Three-part online anthology collection featuring a poem, visual art piece, and alkaline gourmet pizza preparation video.
Artist / Practitioner at Art Heals Project & Festival, Center for Health Empowerment
September 1, 2021 - October 10, 2025Sound artistry and meditative movement for social justice, health, and artistic expression. LGBTQIA+ suicide prevention & HIV awareness event.
Actor & Instrumentalist at Architecture of Soul Sound by Shay Youngblood, Picture Box Theater, Austin, Texas
September 1, 2019 - October 10, 2025Actor and Instrumentalist in a 3-part performance installation. Narration, acting, musical composition, and dance/movement choreography.
Performer at Soul Note Series II, Balance Theater, Austin, Texas
January 1, 2018 - October 10, 2025Three-part live performance. Poetry Roundtable; curated a sound meditation concert with dance choreography, slam poetry, improvisational orchestra, song, chanting, drumming and storytelling.
Performer / Solo Artist at Soul Note Series I
September 1, 2017 - PresentThree-part live performance. 5 poet-Poetry Roundtable; Solo sound meditation concert @ Vortex Theater, g’beda & Color of Sound audience generated experiential improvisational orchestra.
Sound Designer / Instrumentalist at Ocean by Ebony Stewart. Vortex Theater
September 1, 2017 - PresentSound design, ocean-themed audio composition & studio recordings, traditional West African rhythms, and African dance choreography.
Healing Artist / Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Practitioner at Samadhi Divine Medicine
January 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Provided acupuncture, Chinese medicine, herbal prescription, food therapy, sound therapy, guided meditation, yoga, qigong, and care for maternal/fetal health.
Presenter at American Folklife Society
November 1, 2024 - PresentPodcast project development on grieving; Presented ancestral sound altar piece; Taught a workshop on creating sound art to memorialize important people in our lives.
Podcast Project Developer / Field Researcher at Texas Folklife Fellow
September 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Podcast project development; West Texas borderland Mariachi field researcher; data collection; interviewer; podcast creator.
Performer at Chaffey College
February 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Performance and panel discussion for Black History Celebration.
Performer / Producer at Soul Note Series III
September 1, 2021 - PresentVirtual three-part performance including Poetry Roundtable, original music composition & performance; Walking Testimony and related digital film production and editing.
Contributor / Project Organizer at New Media Art and Sound Summit NMASS fest Project
January 1, 2021 - PresentDigital photography, videography, and sound artistry composition for digital reimagining.
Sound Artist / Facilitator at Art Heals Project & Festival, Center for Health Empowerment
September 30, 2021 - October 10, 2025Sound artistry and meditative movement for social justice, health, and artistic expression; LGBTQIA+ suicide prevention & HIV awareness event.
Actor / Instrumentalist at Architecture of Soul Sound by Shay Youngblood
September 30, 2019 - October 10, 2025Three-part performance installation; narration, acting, musical composition, and dance/movement choreography.
Performer / Sound Designer at Soul Note Series II - Balance Theater
December 31, 2018 - October 10, 2025Three-part live performance; poetry roundtable; sound meditation concert with dance, slam poetry, improvisational orchestra, song, chanting, drumming and storytelling.
Performer / Solo Artist at Soul Note Series I
September 30, 2017 - October 10, 2025Three-part live performance; poetry roundtable; solo sound meditation concert.
Sound Designer / Performer at Ocean by Ebony Stewart, Vortex Theater
September 30, 2017 - October 10, 2025Sound design, ocean-themed audio composition, studio recordings, West African rhythms, African dance choreography.
Presenter at American Folklife Society
November 30, 2024 - October 10, 2025Podcast project development on grieving. Presented Mr.Pittman an ancestral sound altar piece. Taught a workshop on creating sound art to memorialize the important people in our lives.
Engagement Specialist / Program Director & Podcast Producer at Blue Horizon Texas
January 1, 2025 - October 10, 2025Episodic podcast development and production of interviews with rural Texans running for office. Served as Engagement Specialist for their online community, curriculum and program development; work as the Program Director and full-spectrum Podcast Producer: interviews, scriptwriting, edits, mixing, and music composition.
Texas Folklife Fellow at Texas Folklife
September 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Podcast project development, West Texas borderland Mariachi field researcher, data collection, interviewer, and podcast creator.
Performer & Panelist at Chaffey College
February 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Performance and panel discussion for Black History Celebration.
Project Producer / Performer at Soul Note Series III
September 30, 2021 - October 10, 2025Third year project/Virtual three-part performance. Poetry Roundtable, a trio round robin reading with original music composition & performance; Walking Testimony: working artists surviving COVID virtual audio video-performance, talk and Q&A; Journey to the Cross Roads Blues Frequency Solo Show. Digital film production, audio, and editing.
Project Artist / Researcher at NMASS fest Project
December 31, 2021 - October 10, 2025Digital photography, videography, and sound artistry composition sampling for digital reimagining by Mickey Delp.
Contributor at Collective Healing Initiative Anthology for Texas Association Against Sexual Assault
November 30, 2021 - October 10, 2025Three-part online anthology collection featuring a poem, visual art piece, and alkaline gourmet pizza preparation video.
Sound Artist / Facilitator at Art Heals Project & Festival, Center for Health Empowerment
September 30, 2021 - October 10, 2025Sound artistry and meditative movement for social justice, health, and artistic expression. LGBTQIA+ suicide prevention & HIV awareness event.
Actor & Instrumentalist at Architecture of Soul Sound by Shay Youngblood, Picture Box Theater, Austin, TX
September 30, 2019 - October 10, 2025Three-part performance installation; Narration, acting, musical composition, and dance/movement choreography.
Performer / Composer at Soul Note Series II, Balance Theater, Austin, TX
December 31, 2018 - October 10, 2025Three-part live performance. Poetry Roundtable; curated a sound meditation concert with dance choreography, slam poetry, improvisational orchestra, song, chanting, drumming and storytelling.
Performer / Artist at Soul Note Series I, Vortex Theater
December 31, 2017 - October 10, 2025Three-part live performance. 5 poet-Poetry Roundtable; Solo sound meditation concert @ Vortex Theater, g’beda & Color of Sound audience generated experiential improvisational orchestra.
Sound Designer / Performer at Ocean by Ebony Stewart, Vortex Theater
September 30, 2017 - October 10, 2025Sound design, ocean-themed audio composition & studio recordings, traditional West African rhythms, and African dance choreography.
Podcast Producer at Blue Horizon Texas
October 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Podcast project development, Rural Democrat Candidate Archival Project, script writer, interviewer, editor, audio producer, and podcast creator.
Fellow at Texas Folklife Fellow
September 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Podcast project development, West Texas borderland Mariachi field researcher, data collection, interviewer, and podcast creator.
Performer / Panelist at Chaffey College
February 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025History of the Griots. Black History Celebration — Performance and panel discussion.
Artist / Producer at Soul Note Series III
September 1, 2021 - October 10, 2025Third year project including virtual three-part performance: Poetry Roundtable with original music, Walking Testimony on artists surviving COVID, and Journey to the Cross Roads Blues Frequency Solo Show; digital film production, audio, and editing.
Project / Artist at New Media Art and Sound Summit NMASS fest Project
January 1, 2021 - October 10, 2025Digital photography, videography, and sound artistry composition sampling for digital reimagining by Mickey Delp.
Contributor at Collective Healing Initiative Anthology for Texas Association Against Sexual Assault
November 1, 2021 - October 10, 2025Three-part online anthology collection featuring a poem, visual art piece, and alkaline gourmet pizza preparation video.
Actor / Instrumentalist at Picture Box Theater
September 1, 2019 - October 10, 2025Architecture of Soul Sound by Shay Youngblood — three-part performance installation including narration, acting, musical composition, and dance/movement choreography.
Performer at Soul Note Series II
January 1, 2018 - October 10, 2025Three-part live performance including poetry roundtable, sound meditation concert with dance choreography, slam poetry, improvisational orchestra, song, chanting, drumming and storytelling.
Performer at Soul Note Series I
September 1, 2017 - October 10, 2025Three-part live performance: poetry roundtable; solo sound meditation concert at Vortex Theater; g’beda & Color of Sound audience-engaged improvisational orchestra.
Sound Designer / Performer at Ocean by Ebony Stewart, Vortex Theater
September 1, 2017 - October 10, 2025Ocean-themed audio composition, studio recordings, traditional West African rhythms, and African dance choreography.
Practitioner / Healer at Samadhi Divine Medicine
January 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Acupuncture, Chinese medicine, herbal prescription, food therapy, sound therapy, reflexology, meditation, yoga, qigong, and maternal/fetal health.
Presenter at American Folklife Society
November 1, 2024 - PresentPodcast project development on grieving. Presented Mr. Pittman ancestral sound altar piece. Taught a workshop on creating sound art to memorialize the important people in our lives.
Program Director / Full Spectrum Podcast Producer at Blue Horizon Texas
January 1, 2025 - October 10, 2025Podcast project development and production of interviews with rural Texans running for office. Engagement Specialist for online community, curriculum and program development; full-spectrum Podcast producer: interviews, script writing, edits, mix, and music composition.
Podcast Project Developer / West Texas Borderland Mariachi Field Researcher at Texas Folklife Fellow
September 30, 2022 - October 10, 2025Podcast project development, field researcher, data collection, interviewer, and podcast creator: History of the Grio.
Performer / Panelist at Chaffey College
February 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Performance and panel discussion for Black History Celebration.
Performer at South Note Series III
September 30, 2021 - October 10, 2025Three-part virtual performance; Poetry Roundtable; trio round robin reading with original music composition & performance; Walk-in Testimony: working artists surviving COVID; Journey to the Cross Roads Blues Frequency Solo Show; Digital film production, audio, and editing.
Contributor at Collective Healing Initiative Anthology for Texas Association Against Sexual Assault
November 30, 2021 - October 10, 2025Three-part online anthropology collection featuring a poem, visual art piece, and a contribution.
Performer / Sound Artist at Art Heals Project & Festival, Center for Health Empowerment
September 30, 2021 - October 10, 2025Sound artistry and meditative movement for social justice, health, and artistic expression.
Actor and Instrumentalist at Picture Box Theater, Austin, Texas
September 30, 2019 - October 10, 20253-part performance installation; narration, acting, musical composition, and dance/movement choreography.
Performer at South Note Series II, Balance Theater, Austin, Texas
December 31, 2018 - October 10, 2025Three-part live performance; poetry roundtable; curated a sound meditation concert with dance choreography, slam poetry, improvisational orchestra, song, chanting, drumming and storytelling.
Performer at South Note Series I, Vortex Theater
September 30, 2017 - October 10, 2025Three-part live performance; five poet-roundtables; solo sound meditation concert; experiential improvisational orchestra.
Sound Designer at Vortex Theater
September 30, 2017 - October 10, 2025Sound design, ocean-themed audio composition & studio recordings, traditional West African rhythms, and African dance choreography.
Presenter at American Folklife Society
November 1, 2024 - PresentPodcast project development on grieving. Presented Mr. Pittman ancestral sound altar piece.
Program Director & Full Spectrum Podcast Producer at Blue Horizon Texas
January 1, 2025 - October 10, 2025Podcast project development and production of interviews with rural Texans running for office. Served as Engagement specialist for online community, curriculum and program development; work as the Program Director and full spectrum Podcast producer: interviews, scripting, edits, mix, and music composition.
Texas Folklife Fellow at Texas Folklife
September 30, 2022 - October 10, 2025Podcast project development, West Texas borderland Mariachi field researcher, data collection, interviewer, and podcast creator: The History of the Grio's.
Performer/Panelist at Chaffey College
February 28, 2022 - October 10, 2025Performance and panel discussion for Black History Celebration.
Performer/Artist at Soul Note Series III
September 30, 2021 - October 10, 2025Three-part online and virtual three-part performance; Poetry Roundtable; original music composition & performance; Walk in Testimony: working artists surviving COVID virtual audio-video performance; Journey to the Cross Roads Blues Frequency Solo Show; Dig ital film production, audio, and editing.
Contributor/Artist at New Media Art and Sound Summit (NMASS) fest
December 31, 2021 - October 10, 2025Digital photography, videography, and sound artistry composition sampling for digital reimaging by Mickey Delp.
Contributor at Collective Healing Initiative Anthology for Texas Association Against Sexual Assault
November 30, 2021 - October 10, 2025Three-part online anthology collection featuring a poem, visual art piece, and alkali gourmet pizza preparation video.
Artist at Art Heals Project & Festival, Center for Health Empowerment
September 30, 2021 - October 10, 2025Sound artistry and meditative movement for social justice, health, and artistic expression.
Actor & Instrumentalist at Architecture of Soul Sound by Shaye Youngblood, Picture Box Theater
September 30, 2019 - October 10, 2025Narration, acting, musical composition, and dance/movement choreography.
Performer at Soul Note Series II, Balance Theater, Austin, Texas
December 31, 2018 - October 10, 2025Three-part live performance; Poetry Roundtable; curated a sound meditation concert with dance choreography, slam poetry, improvisational orchestra, song, chanting, drumming and storytelling.
Performer at Soul Note Series I, Vortex Theater, Austin, Texas
September 30, 2017 - October 10, 2025Three-part live performance; Poetry Roundtable; Solo sound meditation concert; audience-generated experiential improvisational orchestra; Ocean by Ebony Stewart.
Sound Designer at Vortex Theater
September 30, 2017 - October 10, 2025Sound design, ocean-themed audio composition & studio recordings, traditional West African rhythms, and African dance choreography.
Program Director & Podcast Producer at Blue Horizon Texas
July 1, 2022 - January 31, 2025Contacted episodic podcast development and production of interviews with rural Texans running for office. Served as Engagement specialist for their online community, curriculum and program development; work as the Program Director and full spectrum Podcast producer: interviews, scriptwriting, edits, mixing, and music composition.
Artist/Performer at Soul Note Series III
September 1, 2021 - September 30, 2021Third year project/Virtual three-part performance. Poetry Roundtable, a trio round robin reading with original music composition & performance; Walking Testimony: working artists surviving COVID virtual audio video-performance, talk and Q&A; Journey to the Cross Roads Blues Frequency Solo Show. Digital film production, audio, and editing.
Contributor at NMASS fest Project
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021New Media Art and Sound Summit NMASS fest Project — Digital photography, videography, and sound artistry composition sampling for digital reimagining by Mickey Delp.
Contributor at Art Heals Project & Festival, Center for Health Empowerment
September 1, 2021 - September 30, 2021Sound artistry and meditative movement for social justice, health, and artistic expression. LBGTQIA+ suicide prevention & HIV awareness event.
Actor/Instrumentalist at Architecture of Soul Sound by Shay Youngblood, Picture Box Theater
September 1, 2019 - September 30, 20193-part performance installation. Narration, acting, musical composition, and dance/movement choreography.
Performer/Producer at Soul Note Series II
January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018Three-part live performance. Poetry Roundtable; curated a sound meditation concert with dance choreography, slam poetry, improvisational orchestra, song, chanting, drumming and storytelling.
Performer/Producer at Soul Note Series I
September 1, 2017 - September 30, 2017Three-part live performance. 5 poet-Poetry Roundtable; Solo sound meditation concert @ Vortex Theater, g’beda & Color of Sound audience generated experiential improvisational orchestra.
Education
Doctorate Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, Austin, Texas
January 1, 2021 - October 10, 2025Masters Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, Austin, Texas
January 1, 2011 - October 10, 2025Masters Curriculum & Instruction TESOL, Linguistics at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
January 1, 2001 - October 10, 2025Bachelors Arts & Humanities at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
January 1, 1994 - October 10, 2025Doctorate in Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, Austin, Texas
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2021Master of Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, Austin, Texas
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2011Master of Curriculum & Instruction TESOL, Linguistics at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2001Bachelor of Arts & Humanities at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 1994Doctorate in Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, Austin, TX
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2021Masters Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, Austin, TX
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2011Masters Curriculum & Instruction TESOL, Linguistics at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
January 1, 2001 - January 1, 2001Bachelors Arts & Humanities at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
January 1, 1994 - January 1, 1994Doctorate Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, Austin, TX
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2021Masters Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, Austin, TX
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2011Masters Curriculum & Instruction TESOL, Linguistics at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
January 1, 2001 - January 1, 2001Bachelors Arts & Humanities at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
January 1, 1994 - January 1, 1994Doctorate at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2021Masters Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2011Masters Curriculum & Instruction TESOL, Linguistics at New Mexico State University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2001Bachelors Arts & Humanities at Western Michigan University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 1994Doctorate in Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine
January 11, 2030 - October 10, 2025Masters in Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine
January 11, 2030 - December 31, 2011Masters in Curriculum & Instruction, TESOL, Linguistics at New Mexico State University
January 11, 2030 - October 10, 2025Bachelor of Arts in Humanities at Western Michigan University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 1994Doctorate Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine
January 1, 2021 - December 9, 2025Masters Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine
January 1, 2011 - December 9, 2025Masters Curriculum & Instruction TESOL, Linguistics at New Mexico State University
January 1, 2001 - December 9, 2025Bachelors Arts & Humanities at Western Michigan University
January 1, 1994 - December 9, 2025Qualifications
Texas Folklife Fellow
January 1, 2022 - October 10, 2025Core Funding Recipient 2021
January 1, 2021 - October 10, 2025Core Funding Recipient 2019
January 1, 2019 - October 10, 2025Core Funding Recipient 2018
January 1, 2018 - October 10, 2025Capacity Building Funding 2016
January 1, 2016 - October 10, 2025Arts Activate MCAD Grant
January 1, 2023 - October 10, 2025AIR Media Fellow
January 1, 2023 - October 10, 2025Texas Folklife Fellow
April 1, 2022 - September 1, 2022Core Funding Recipient: Soul Note Series III
January 1, 2021 - October 10, 2025Core Funding Recipient: Soul Note Series II
January 1, 2019 - October 10, 2025Core Funding Recipient: Soul Note Series I
January 1, 2018 - October 10, 2025Capacity Building Funding
January 1, 2016 - October 10, 2025Texas Folklife Fellow
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2022Core Funding Recipient
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2021Core Funding Recipient
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2019Core Funding Recipient
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2018Capacity Building Funding
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016Arts Activate MCAD Grant
January 1, 2023 - December 9, 2025AIR Media Fellow
January 1, 2023 - December 9, 2025Texas Folklife Fellow
April 1, 2022 - December 9, 2025Soul Note Series II Core Funding Recipient
January 1, 2019 - December 9, 2025Soul Note Series I Core Funding Recipient
January 1, 2018 - December 9, 2025Capacity Building Funding
January 1, 2016 - December 9, 2025Core Funding Recipient 2021 City of Austin Economic Development & Cultural Arts Division: Soul Note Series III
January 1, 2021 - December 9, 2025Industry Experience
Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Education, Non-Profit Organization, Professional Services, Government
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