Career
She is best known as the artist mentor and first manager for superstar rapper, Tupac Shakur who came to her writing workshop, The Microphone Sessions in the Oakland Bay area. Steinberg was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother was an activist of Mexican and Turkish descent and her father was a criminal defense lawyer of Polish Jewish descent.
During the late 1980s Steinberg was a backup dancer and singer touring with world music icons, O.J Ekemode & The Nigerian Allstars.
She also shared the stage with Santana, Bo Diddley, The Neville Brothers, The Spinners, Burning Spear and Jimmy Cliff. As a veteran music industry executive she served as a marketer with Atlantic Records, Sony, Def Jam, Tommy Boy, Interscope, and Relativity.
While living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Steinberg learned about a promising recording artist named 2Pac. After a meeting in spring 1988, she opened her home, where he read and wrote under her encouragement.
Steinberg founded American Institute of Management in 1998.
American Institute of Management is a Los Angeles-based non-profit that has arts and athletic programs for at-risk youth. Karina Smirnoff heads the Dance Intervention division. The Microphone Sessions (the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society ) is a writing workshop started by Steinberg and Tupac Shakur that develops the spoken word, poetry, musical, hip-hop, popular and dance, jazz, rock n" roll singing, and dramatic performances.
Weekly gatherings are held worldwide, led by Steinberg-trained artist-educators.