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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

David Perdue is an Atlanta comedian who has appeared on Kevin Hart Presents: "Hart of the City" on Comedy Central, "Uproarious" on FuseTV, & Unprotected Sets on EPIX. David is also an actor appearing in "Love Is..." on OWN and "Bobcat Goldthwait"s Misfits and Monsters" on truTV.  He…

John Edward Doyle Jr. is a Storyteller, Actor and Teaching Artist. He is the founder of Arts Education Integration LLC, a company that integrates creative arts into the educational setting. Originally from Burnsville, Minnesota, John moved to Atlanta to attend Morehouse College. After receiving theater…

Kacie (Willis) Luaders is the Founding Producer of Could Be Pretty Cool, an audio-first think tank™ for creative industries. With an educational background, including a BS in Music Recording Technology from Hampton University and an MFA in Sound Design from Savannah College of Art and…

Lee Osorio is an actor, playwright, and director based in Atlanta. His work has been seen on stages across the city, Off-Broadway, and on television. He is a proud union member (AEA and SAG/AFTRA) and a founding member of the Coalition for Racial Equity in…