Fete Jen

Coming straight from my heart. Spreading positive African-Caribbean-American vibes around the world. Party with a purpose. Live, Laugh & most of all LOVE! Peace!

Home of the Lyricist Lounge show in Dar es Salaam that showcases local artists performing as poets, spoken word artists, emcees/rappers, singers and comedians. Check out our photo albums to get a feel for the good vibes we instigate.

06/13/2026

📚 Atlanta friends, I hope you'll join me tomorrow from 1–3 PM at FruiTea Bubbles Café in Smyrna for an afternoon of conversation, storytelling, and community as we discuss my memoir, The World in My Bones: The Diplomat Queens Made.

I'm especially honored that this event is being hosted by my Syracuse University sister, Lisa, and moderated by my Syracuse University brother, Frank. 💙🍊🧡

If you're in the "Hotlanta" area, come say hello, grab a book, and help spread the word. I'd love to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones!

06/11/2026

📢🎙️ Atlanta friends and everyone beyond: late breaking news!

I'm looking forward to joining my sisterfriend Dazon Dixon Diallo on her show Sisters Time | Women Speak tomorrow, Thursday, June 11, at 6:00 PM ET on WRFG Radio 89.3 FM in Atlanta.

📖 We'll be talking about my memoir, The World in My Bones: The Diplomat Queens Made, and the journey from Queens to the Peace Corps, USAID, JSI and communities around the world. I'm excited to share stories about identity, service, cross-cultural connection, and the experiences that shaped both my life and this book.

Tune in live at wrfg.org or on WRFG 89.3 FM if you're in the Atlanta area. I hope you'll join us and spread the word!

📻 6:00 PM ET 📍 WRFG 89.3 FM Atlanta 💻 wrfg.org

06/10/2026

Join the challenge hosted by !! Let's get reading this summer 📚 ☀️

06/08/2026

Sooo what's on your summer reading list???

📚 The World in My Bones available wherever you like to get your books.

Enjoy! 📖 ☀️

05/29/2026

✨ Milestone unlocked! ✨

My memoir, The World in My Bones: The Diplomat Queens Made, has received its first official book review!

A huge thank you to Jola Naibi for reading my story and sharing such thoughtful reflections on Medium. As a first-time, independent author, seeing someone engage with my work in this way is both humbling and encouraging.

When I started writing this book, I simply wanted to preserve a story. I never imagined it would travel across so many communities, countries, and conversations. Moments like this remind me why storytelling matters.

Thank you to everyone who has supported this journey by buying a book, attending an event, sharing a post, or cheering me on from afar. ❤️

📖 Read the review via the link in my bio or the comments section.

05/26/2026

🏀Ok ya'll...I’m sooo hype over the NY Knicks winning Game 4 last night and advancing to the finals! Where's at??? Lol🧡💙

I’ve been a loyal New York fan since the day I was born. Through all the years people joked about the Knicks, counted them out, and said we’d never get back here... I stayed riding for my hometown team. That’s just how Queens raised me.

When my son Anthony started playing basketball, I had him covered head to toe in Knicks gear whether he liked it or not 😂 and sent him to Knicks summer camps for years. Somewhere along the way, his nickname on the court became “Melo” in homage to my fellow Syracuse Orangeman Carmelo Anthony.
Anthony says THIS is what I should’ve written about him in my memoir instead of saying he thought he was LeBron James 🤦🏽‍♀️😂 (even though he absolutely is a huge Bron fan). Maybe I’ll have to revise that part of our family story in a future edition.

But for now? I’m celebrating this big New York win. There’s just no place like home. And for me, home will always be Queens, New York. 🗽🏀🧡💙

01/13/2026

📢 Community alert:

The Hip Hop Loves youth center in Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷 was unfortunately impacted by a fire, and they lost over $30,000 in equipment used for youth programs.

This center is a safe, creative home where young people come to dance, create, play sports, learn, and grow.

They're raising funds to rebuild and reopen the space for the kids. Any donation or share truly helps.

See before and after pics here and the link to support below. Thanks in advance for any support ya'll can give.

🙏🏽 Donate or share here:
https://givebutter.com/JgNiWc

01/11/2026

🗣 I never set out to be a diplomat. If I’m honest, I didn’t even know what one really was back in the day.

I just knew that I wanted to escape.

Escape the limits placed on girls like me.

Escape the narrow expectations of where I was from and how far I could go.

Escape without fully realizing that I was actually following a path already carved for me.

🌳 My grandfather Faine Jean Baptiste, my mother’s father, is in one of the pictures here. Can you spot who he is? This was 1950 America, not so hard to pick him out from the crowd. He was an agronomist with the Haitian government and sent for a course at Michigan State College (now university). I'm only realizing now how he was studying, learning, and serving through government work long before the word “diplomacy” ever entered my vocabulary.

I think about how his journey made my mother’s possible, and eventually mine. That his time in the United States, his belief in education and movement, planted the seed that later carried her here in her early twenties, brave enough to begin again in a new country.

✨️Then, decades later, I found myself in that same state, Michigan. This time in 2004, as a Population Fellow at the University of Michigan. Not chasing diplomacy, just chasing possibility and deepening my public health knowledge.

Not realizing I was tracing a circle that had already been drawn.

What I thought was flight was really inheritance.

What felt like running was becoming.

📖 The World in My Bones: The Diplomat Queens Made is a story about movement, memory, and the generations that push us forward even when we don’t yet have language for where we’re headed.

💫 Sometimes escape is just purpose taking the long way around.

01/03/2026

🗣 2026!!! In the words of Nas, Who’s world is this? The world is yours, ours, mine. Let's get it 🙌🏾🫶🏾

Because whew, this past year has been a doozy with multiple, continuing losses and setbacks. 😩 God and the universe have put me through a LOT of tests in 2025 and have prepared me for tomorrow and beyond 🙏🏾

🛑 I rebuke all negativity, hatred, warmongering and violence ‼️

I am channeling all of my ancestors. I am more than ready to cut through the distractions, leap over the hurdles, turn the page and step into what is up next for me 🇭🇹 ✨️

I’m claiming 2026 as my year of rebirth, renewal, and next level growth in ways we haven’t seen yet. 💥

I will also be heavily flexing my equanimity and peace muscles 💪🏾✌🏾☮️

I’m getting ready to launch my first of what I now feel will be several books on February14th - "The World in My Bones: The Diplomat Queens Made." 📕🌍📖

I'm getting ready to step fully onto the international speaker circuit. Getting ready to see my story live beyond the page as a podcast, plays, TV series, films. You name it, I'll consider it. 🎨🎭📺🎬🎤📻

I'm also interested in roles in arts and culture, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility and mental health and wellness. Know of anything interesting in those realms? Please let me know 🤝🏾

I’m speaking it all into existence. I'm manifesting positivity and claiming victory 💫

I’m welcoming every interview, every conversation, every opportunity, every person who will be touched by this journey. Who's with me?? Let's discuss...🙌🏾 ✨

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This is how I'm stepping into 2026. How about you? 💡

Happy new year. Let's get it 🙌🏾🫶🏾

12/25/2025

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