IBPA Publishing University 2025

Tamara Mayo is a powerhouse visionary, publishing disruptor, and community-rooted changemaker who wears creativity like armor and purpose like a crown. As the founder of Taevo Publishing, she’s not just publishing books — she’s publishing truth. With one foot in the spiritual realm and the other in the gritty world of grassroots entrepreneurship, Tamara blends bold storytelling, unapologetic advocacy, and old-school hustle to reshape the future of literature, education, and economic empowerment — especially for BIPOC voices.

She’s the type to build a business fair for kids, create an apprenticeship pipeline, revamp a distribution system, and still have time to drop a fire article on Black literary infrastructure — all while sipping tea and editing manuscripts on a laptop in the moonlight. She’s equal parts mystic and mogul, with a laugh that disarms, a pen that cuts deep, and a mission that won’t quit.

If there’s a revolution in publishing, Tamara’s not just in the room — she is shaking and turning over tables.