Quamé is an Academic Counselor, Lecturer and Co-Founder of the VèVè A. Clark Institute for Engaged Scholars of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. For over ten years, he has taught and created courses that foster self-development with an emphasis on knowing one's authentic self. His teaching philosophy is: before you research and master another subject, you should first research and master "self". Seminars such as Investigating Life Journeys and Mastering Self, Mastering Research have motivated his students to become innovators and leaders throughout their respective fields.

About the Book

In 2001, Quamé made a huge life decision to leave his Ph.D. program to pursue his music career and start a music recording company in Los Angeles. He returned to his former neighborhood located in the Crenshaw District, where he reunited with neighborhood friends while also making new connections from Hollywood to Calabasas. Falling on hard times from homelessness to a health crisis, Quamé learned priceless lessons from people he interacted with, reading books and the "do or die" environment of Crenshaw. Upon realizing that the path he was on did not reflect the "real" him, Quamé went back to Berkeley, California where he continued to practice and record the principles and lessons that were magically transforming his life. The Power of Letting Go offers readers three core principles that Quamé believes are essential to discovering the "real" you, leading to true success, inner joy and purpose.