FOUNDER

Mika Black is the founder of Anuu Way, her passion to help her community started in 2012 when she created spaces of expression through art and music at historical venues such as Apache, the Music Room and in the West End of Atlanta.

Her journey to learning Blockchain and the greater world of Web 3 technologies, was a long but worthwhile experience. In her daily balance of being a mother of 3, and a realtor, Mika dedicated herself to taking classes provided by Blockchain engineers, attending numerous community spaces both online and IRL, and basic trial and error. She wanted to streamline what she learned, and extend those learnings to her community, starting with Atlanta, Ga, her home. This gave birth to Anuu Way, a non-profit that helps educate people about Web3. The goal of Anuu Way is to provide resources and tools for people to participate and build in decentralized finance (DeFi). 

Mika founded Anuu Way in October 2021. “In the beginning, the first task was learning what the community already knew, and what they ultimately needed,” Mika says. The existing resources to understand Web3 were often written in the complex technical jargon that is characteristic of everything tech, and a lot of the initial work was simply turning those resources into something that everyone can understand and use. “This allows me to ‘lower the on-ramp’ so to speak for those who may have not been exposed to anything like this before, but now can benefit from what they learn.”

Today she teaches classes all over Atlanta, GA helping to onboard communities into DeFi and to encourage mass adoption of blockchain technology. Her goal is to create learning hubs and spaces to nurture creativity, education for those who have been overlooked or left behind, and opportunities in emerging technology career fields for her communities.