Baba Brinkman – Rap artist & playwright

Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist, award-winning playwright, and former tree-planter who has personally planted more than one million trees. He has written or co-written four hip-hop theatre shows, and released ten hip-hop albums.

The Rap Guide to Evolution (“Astonishing and brilliant” NY Times) won a Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination and was featured on US national TV on The Rachel Maddow Show and at the Seattle Science Festival opening for Stephen Hawking

Baba is a recent recipient of the National Center for Science Education’s “Friend of Darwin Award” for his efforts to improve the public understanding of evolutionary biology.