Maggie Beker is grinning at the camera wearing a green tank top

Maggie Beker

Maggie Beker is an Atlanta based actor, writer, and comedian. She is a Project Coordinator for Emory Arts with a focus on student engagement and student experience. Her personal work plays with magical realism, and she likes to imagine a world where something wonderful hides…

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Jacque Pritz

Jacquelyn (Jacque) Pritz is an Atlanta based dancer, choreographer, and arts administrator. She is Program Coordinator of Emory Arts and a company member of ALA Dance and Bautanzt Here. Her choreography examines the connection between her personal identity as a Filipino-American woman and the collective…

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Kevin Karnes is smiling in front of a white background wearing a suit.

Kevin Karnes

Kevin C. Karnes is a musicologist who studies sounding expressions of identity, difference, and belonging in eastern and central Europe from the nineteenth century to the present. His work combines archival research and ethnography, engaging projects in such domains as sound studies, anthropology, philosophy, art…

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Jessica Hill is grinning at the camera while wearing a red shirt with a blurred dark gray background.

Jessica Hill

Jessica Hill (she/her) is an actor, improviser, and scholar. She is interested in applied theatre and improv as tools for examining our experiences and strategizing for more just futures. Jessica holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Public…

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Juel D. Lane is standing against a gray backdrop wearing a teal top.

Juel D. Lane

Juel D. Lane one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.” He has performed nationally and internationally with Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, and currently dances with Bessie Award winning Camille A. Brown & Dancers. He is the Executive Artistic Associate with the Black Acting Methods Studio.  In 2012, Lane…

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Alex Mari is smiling in front of a dark blue backdrop with tattoo covered arms crossed and wearing a black and gold shirt.

Alex Mari

Alex Mari is an interdisciplinary performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia. Mari explores the cramped spaces of social identity and liminality through performance, objects, installation, body art, video, writing, conceptual art and street intervention. She seeks societal reorganization through a QTBIPOC feminist lens in order to…

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Leo Briggs is smiling in front of a wall wearing a black tank top and jeans

Leo Briggs

Leo Briggs (she/they) is a dance artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. They graduated summa cum laude from the Dance & Movement Studies program at Emory University, with a secondary major in Chemistry. Leo's research documents the modern queer and trans liberation movement and connects it to a…

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Sierra King is sitting at a desk wearing a red blouse and glasses. She's resting her head on her left hand.

Sierra King

Sierra King is a  multidisciplinary artist, archivist and curator living and working in Atlanta,GA.  Her practice of art and archiving act as a call and response to one another by utilizing her family collections of documents, ephemera and history to enter in conversations across the…

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T. SLang is standing in front of an off-white backdrop wearing a black sweater dress with its sleeves rolled up and black boots.

T. Lang

T. Lang designs and leads interdisciplinary collaborations to demonstrate inventive new choreographic works. She considers the execution of 21st-century embodiment as an intellectual, artistic, and civic practice. Through reflection, research, and performance, T. Lang weighs how economic, social, and political forces have shaped how black…

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Amina S. McIntyre is smiling in front of a white backdrop wearing a teal shirt, white cardigan, glasses, and pearl necklace.

Amina S. McIntyre

Amina S. McIntyre is a Ph.D student in Religion, area Religion, Psychology and Culture, with minors in Womanist Ethnography and Homiletics and Liturgics at Vanderbilt University. McIntyre earned a BA in Anthropology at Colby College, MA in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana…

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