Panelist Profile: Millie Heckler
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Panelist Profile: Millie Heckler

Embodying Self & Expanding Perception “Self-expression is the taking of an internal impulse — a personal vision — and through self-awareness putting it into external form.” That’s how USC describes the process by which people create art, achieving both self-expression and self-awareness. For videographer, documentarian, singer/songwriter, and actress Millie Heckler,…
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Panelist Profile: Omega Jade
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Panelist Profile: Omega Jade

Speaking Truth & Building Legacy There is much opportunity to embrace at the intersection of comedy and hip hop. Just ask Omega Jade — creator, host, and producer of Rhyme & Unreason, which can be described as “a chaotic mashup of standup comedy and freestyle rap.” But embracing this opportunity…
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Panelist Profile: Rajnii Eddins
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Panelist Profile: Rajnii Eddins

Shedding Light & Sharing Hope Over the past year and a half, the global pandemic has fundamentally reshaped relationships between business, society, and government. Widespread calls for systemic change go hand in hand with a shift toward more socially conscious consumerism. For spoken word artist Rajnii Eddins, that means poetry…
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Survivor Stories: Myles Bullen
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Survivor Stories: Myles Bullen

Myles Bullen is a Native American “soft rap art poet” from Portland, Maine. Music has helped him through the hardest parts of his life; he makes his music to help others in the same way. With inventive wordplay and powerful lyrics, Myles raps over everything from smooth jazz beats, to…
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Myles Bullen: Musical Healing Beyond Prison Walls
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Myles Bullen: Musical Healing Beyond Prison Walls

Creativity, connection and community... That's what encompasses the work of Myles Bullen, a Native American musician, poet and performer from Portland, Maine—and one of Music to Life's Northern New England Accelerator participants. Over the past few years, Bullen has performed in schools, prisons and recovery centers around the world. Just…
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Gina Chavez: Uplifting Oppressed Women in Latin America
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Gina Chavez: Uplifting Oppressed Women in Latin America

Music and social activism have intertwined throughout Gina Chavez’s career as a Latinx bilingual folk-pop singer. Gina began writing music while living in Argentina. Later she spent eight months as a volunteer teacher in a gang-dominated barrio in El Salvador. Her single "Siete-D" is a celebration of the Salvadoran spirit…
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