Team

LEAD ARTISTS

Wesley Taylor - graphic designer/fine artist/animator
Waajeed - music producer/sound designer/filmmaker
Invincible (ill Weaver) - lyricist/organizer/filmmaker
L05 (Carlos Garcia) - multimedia artist/performance systems architect
Sage Crump - producer/cultural strategist
Aaron Jones - architect/fine artist

COLLABORATIVE TEAM

Tim Kvasnosky - music and sound design consultant
Tyrone Clemons- 3D animation
Nizar Wattad - story consultant
Clyde Valentin- dramaturgist
Heidi Boisvert - experience designer

Lead Organizational Partners

Emergence Media / DIRT TECH RECK / Allied Media Projects / Talking Dolls Studio

Local Presenters, Community Cohorts, and Additional Project Partners

Detroit:

Allied Media Projects and Talking Dolls (co-presenters)

B. Anthony Holley- Conscious Community Cooperative ThinkTank,The Cooperation Group, Readyo Radio, Mindful B Enterprises
Dakarai Carter- Black Youth Project 100 Detroit, Detroit Future Youth Network
Kezia Curtis- Detroit Restorative Justice Center, Feedem Freedom, Black Lives Matter Detroit
Halima Cassells- Free Market of Detroit, Center for Community Based Enterprise, Oakland Avenue Artists Coalition, One Mile Detroit
Michelle Martinez- Mira! Collective, Swimming in the Detroit River Collective
Ryan Myers Johnson- Sidewalk Arts Festival, Ryan Myers Johnson Dance Company
Shane Bernardo- Detroit Asian Youth Project, Uprooting Racism Planting Justice, Earthworks, Swimming in the Detroit River Collective
Stacy’e J- Liquid Flow

Detroit community cohort bios can be found here.

Dallas:

Clyde Valentin - SMU Ignite Arts Dallas (presenter)

Sara Mokuria- Mothers Against Police Brutality (cohort coordinator)
Jodi Voice- American Indian Heritage Day in Texas Committee (cohort coordinator)
Tisha Crear- Susu Eco, Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Maria Yolisma Garcia- North Texas Dream Team
Ramon Mejia- Streets Organizing for Liberation
Harold Steward- Fahari Arts, South Dallas Cultural Center
Carol Zou- Trans.Lation Vickery Meadow, Michelada Think Tank

Seattle:

On The Boards (presenter)

Luzviminda Carpenter- Uzuri Consulting and Productions (cohort coordinator)
Inye Wokoma- Ijo Arts (cohort coordinator)
Henry Luke- Anakbayan Seattle
James Williams and Nikkita - Ending the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC), Youth Undoing Institutional Racism
Jill Mangaliman- Got Green
Ijeoma Oluo
FEEST Seattle
Youth Speaks Seattle
Wyking Garrett- Africatown Seattle
Tracy Rector- Longhouse Media

Advisors (2010-2016)

Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) / The Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership / Meg Wheatley / Badr Albanna / Kathie Sanchez / Kweli Tutashinda / Salina Gray / Rha Goddess (Move The Crowd) / adrienne maree brown / Jenny Lee / Diana Nucera / dream hampton / Shira Hassan / alexis pauline gumbs / Gibran Rivera / Paula X Rojas / Patrisse Marie Cullors / Mark-Anthony Johnson / Micha Cardenas / Una Lee / Michael Premo / Movement Generation / Sarah Gonzales / Ashley Sparks / Tunde Olaniran / Paolo Pedercini / Kamal Sinclair