Featuring Antoinette Lee Toscano, MBA
Antoinette Lee Toscano is a distinctive person that connects across cultures and communities.
She is an American Adult Cross-Cultural Kid (ACCK) and Third Culture Adult (TCA) with family ancestry in Nigeria, Ireland, China, and Jamaica.
Antoinette’s distinctive background has led her to pursue career opportunities that were also distinctive. She began her career as an 11-year United States Army veteran, often being the first – first woman, first person of color, etc - in her various roles in the military. She served during the Gulf War era as a database administrator, dental clinic manager, Army recruiter, dental assistant, dental hygienist, and an air assault qualified, expert field medic throughout her military career.
After her military career, Antoinette became an IT executive, leading again in an environment and field with few women leaders.
She worked as an Information Technology Chief Executive Officer (CEO), marketing executive, program manager, IT project manager, software designer, and a certified IT call center manager for several Department of Defense and other federal, city, and state agencies.
Later, Antoinette pursued other opportunities that allowed her to use her creative and writing skills. She became a blogger at the New Normal Big Life blog, Producer of New Normal Big LifeTV for Culturs Global Multicultural TV. She also is a Contributing Writer at Paddling Magazine and Culturs, a global, multicultural magazine creating content for people living “in-between” cultures. She is both a fiction and non-fiction ghostwriter with more than ten years of creative writing, sensitivity editing, and character development experience.
In addition to her many writing roles, Antoinette is a transformational public speaker and an advocate for people living with traumatic brain injury health challenges and those diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress (PTS). She can speak into these issues as someone who had to overcome her own physical and health challenges and related trauma.
More recently, Antoinette has combined her various career experiences with her interests in building diversity and community in the outdoors.
She is the Producer of WhitewaterTV, where people, places, and products worldwide come together to create an adventure sports community. Antoinette is also a Team River Runner—Fort Collins, CO Assistant Chapter, and Coordinator as well as Badfish SUP Paddling Team Member Coordinator. She is a Contributing Correspondent on the Hammer Factor Podcast, a Kokatat National Brand Ambassador. And she is co-founder of Diversify Whitewater which is dedicated to bringing outdoor opportunities to more diverse and less advantaged communities.
The range of distinctive cultures and experiences that Antoinette embodies has motivated her to pursue a range of opportunities that not only showcase her skills and creativity but provide opportunities for others to engage in the community.