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Taylor (aka Michael Taylor) is a bi-racial Chicago area percussionist, entrepreneur, educator, recording artist, performer and facilitator, specializing in the West African djembe and dunun drums. He authored the book Remembering Your Ancestral Fire - A Bi-Racial Man's Unlikely Journey of Self-…
Billy Oh received his bachelor’s degree in English and Creative Writing from Loyola University in Chicago after having studied at Dartmouth College. He co-founded the bluegrass group Tangleweed and teaches at the Old Town School of Folk Music.
Jonas Friddle is a Carolina born singer, songwriter and Old-Time banjo player whose songs have received The John Lennon Songwriting Award, First Place in the Great American Song Contest and a nomination for Album of the Year in the Independent Music Awards. His music bears the marks of a musician…
Luciano was born in 1969 into a musical family in rural Iretama, Parana, Brazil’s southern region. He studied under one of Brazil’s most respected professors, Henrique Pinto. Luciano’s music journey next led him to the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) where he received a bachelor’s degree…
Sadie Woods is an award winning post-disciplinary artist, independent curator, and deejay. Her work focuses primarily on social movements, liberatory practices, cultural memory, and producing collaborations within communities of difference. She also deejays under the moniker Afrodjia, focusing on…
Tim Geitner moved to Colorado in 2012 with his wife, Carrie, and two sons while on active duty with the United States Army. Stationed at Ft. Carson, Tim served as a Military Intelligence officer at the battalion and brigade levels after seven years in the Infantry and a deployment to…
Jacqueline Patterson is the Founder and Executive Director of the Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership. The mission of the Chisholm Legacy Project is rooted in a Just Transition Framework, serving as a vehicle to connect Black communities on the…
Vaughn Bryant is Executive Director of Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI), a division of Metropolitan Family Services which works in partnership with community-based organizations to coordinate, support and sustain comprehensive service s designed to heal communities that have experienced the…
Julie Wilen is the Executive Director of the Pritzker Foundation and Chief of Innovation, Community Safety for the Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation. Julie leads the PPFF’s strategic vision and direction of the Community Safety Initiatives within the Community Safety and Wellness portfolio.…
Tawakalitu J. Mitchell is a Senior Program Officer at the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where she has responsibility for grantmaking in the Chicago Commitment program.
Prior to joining MacArthur, Tawa spent thirteen years in a variety of education policy and program roles…