TIKA

Artist

Innovator

Healer

Visionary Leader

TIKA is a Canadian Screen Award-winning composer, emotional technology practitioner, and cultural futurist whose work bridges art, healing, and human-systems innovation. A dynamic force at the intersections of music, nervous system literacy, spiritual intelligence, and decolonial design, she is widely recognized for transforming lived experience into emotionally resonant frameworks that support individual and collective liberation.

As founder of Iverna Island™, a creative-wellbeing and cultural innovation ecosystem, TIKA develops methodologies that integrate somatic awareness, creative sovereignty, Black diasporic sonic lineage, and trauma-informed practice. Her work positions sound, story, and embodiment as sophisticated technologies capable of reshaping how communities learn, lead, relate, and heal.

A graduate of the Global Leaders Institute MBA in Arts Innovation, TIKA brings a rare blend of artistic mastery and strategic insight to every space she enters. Her practice spans composition, performance, storytelling, curriculum design, and systems architecture — grounded in a commitment to emotional clarity, cultural memory, and human-centered transformation.

In 2022, she received the Canadian Academy Award for Best Original Song for Learn to Swim, co-written with Casey MQ, marking a milestone in contemporary Canadian music and film. An alumna of the Canadian Film Centre, she has scored feature films, documentaries, animated series, and the acclaimed project Ninety-Two, weaving ancestral memory, spiritual technology, and embodied feeling into narrative sound worlds.

Internationally, TIKA is fast becoming a sought-after voice on emotional technology, Black sonic lineage, cultural healing, and accessible creative ecosystems. Her signature frameworks — Creative Sovereignty™, Beyond Notation™, The Sonic Afterlife™, Nervous System Literacy for Creatives™, and The Cost of Silence™ — have transformed rooms across artistic, academic, corporate, spiritual, and community settings.

As a recording artist, her album Anywhere But Here was celebrated as a cinematic and deeply human meditation on grief, healing, and return. Called “one of the most prolific creatives in Toronto,” TIKA has shared stages with John Legend and NAO, offering a vocal world defined by emotional precision, spiritual resonance, and disarming authenticity.

Through partnerships with institutions including the University of Toronto, Project Agape, Future Black Female, and international arts and innovation programs, she continues to build liberatory pathways in education, wellness, and creative technology.

Her forthcoming body of work, The Frequency of Love (2027), is an experiential offering designed to restore the nervous system, deepen emotional alignment, and reimagine love as a radical, embodied practice.

Whether composing for film, guiding global keynotes, facilitating deep healing containers, or architecting new emotional futures, TIKA is not simply an artist — she is a transformative system in motion. A cultural frequency. A force of love, truth, and visionary leadership redefining what comes next.