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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…
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…
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…
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…
Since 2017, the Chicago-based Black chamber music collective D-Composed has pursued a mission to uplift and empower society through the music of Black composers. D-Composed creates classical music experiences that are inclusive and reflective of the Black experience. The group has also provided a…
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…
In her role as program director for the Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation, Julie Brown focuses on nonprofit capacity building and strategic grantmaking, but she is also intrigued by storytelling, and the opportunity it offers to inspire donors and volunteers to act.
Shanee Helfer is a former manager of community foundations at the Council on Foundations.
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.
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-…