Why I Started Project No More
Tangala Robinson Coney is the founder and lead speaker of the anti-bullying organization, Project No More. She was born November 05, 1972, in Ocilla Georgia to Annie Ruth Robinson. She spent most of her early years performing in talent shows, and singing in the church choir. While everyone thought she was a normal child, they had no idea she was battling something greater in her life, bullying.
As a result, Tangala became loud, and outgoing trying to fit in with her peers to camouflage her struggles. Bullying began to take its toll on her as she began to have suicidal thoughts. Consequently, she made one attempt at suicide because she thought it was her only way out. She saw her life declining, and felt she had nowhere to go and no one to talk to.
The torment from her bullying experiences began to control her adulthood as she wanted so eagerly to be accepted. Tangala let her childhood control her and shape her as an adult; she wanted to “fit in.” She became everyone’s “yes” girl, simply looking for validation and recognition from others. Eventually, she became depressed, hateful, carrying resentment, and wanting to give up.
In 2014, a turning point came when Tangala had an awakening experience. At one moment of self-reflection, she began to wonder why she was so bitter and had so much resentment. God took Tangala back to her childhood, where she was bullied. She had experienced manipulation, teasing, and humiliation in her childhood that resulted in the decline of her self-acceptance. God gave Tangala the voice to speak out. The ministry that she was delivering through song as a child became an even bigger voice once she began to heal.
That same year, God gave Tangala a voice to speak out against bullying, “Project No More.” Project No More is her story, she refers to it as her “open-heart surgery,” her healing process. Tangala shares with everyone that “Project No More” is her beauty for her ashes (Isaiah 61:3).
Today, Tangala Robinson Coney is a motivational speaker, youth mentor, wife, mother and grandmother. She has been the keynote speaker at various events such as youth conferences and explosions, women conferences, youth detention centers, boys and girl clubs, and empowerment seminars. She humbly shares her story and touches the lives of many, helping many victims of bullying to heal, and to find their voice to say “No More!”
