Ami Yares Ami Yares is a singer/songwriter, teaching artist and executive director of BuildaBridge International, an arts and education non-profit that services marginalized youth and communities. His experience dwells in conflict transformation, curriculum design; and trauma education and healing. As a teaching artist, he ensures greater accessibility to healing and…
Shawna Potter Shawna Potter is an activist, educator, Intimacy Coordinator, and the lead singer of the Baltimore feminist punk band, War On Women. Through her music and her work, Shawna has been empowering people to make their community more fun and inclusive for over a decade. She created the Safer…
David Roth David is a singer, songwriter, and recording artist who has taken his songs, experience, and expertise to a wide variety of venues in this and other countries full-time for more than three decades. His work has found its way to Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, several Chicken Soup…
Jordan Occasionally #JordanOccasionally or JD is an Independent Dance Pop/RNB Artist and Activist with over 1.5 Million streams, 5.6 Million likes on Tik Tok, and 120,000 followers across social media. Jordan Occasionally is a touring global artist with a grassroots fanbase from Memphis,TN to the world. Their album “Indigo” solidified…
Lia Uribe Dr. Lia Uribe is associate dean and professor of music at the University of Arkansas. She maintains an active career as a chamber musician, orchestral player, and teaching artist. She has been a guest artist in Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Bolivia, Canada, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Finland, Argentina, Panama,…
Kristen Grainger Kristen Grainger is a poet and performing songwriter living in the Pacific Northwest whose social justice songwriting has received national recognition for excellence. Her perspective reflects a career path that has twisted and forked a few times (she has served as a university vice president and also as…
Andreína Maldonado Andreína Maldonado is a Venezuelan anthropologist, entrepreneur, and interdisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, California. With a passion for curating immersive experiences, she brings her multifaceted expertise to diverse settings, spanning corporate environments, theaters, bars, and site-specific performances. In 2021, Andreína founded BienStar Consulting, her own small business.…
Dr. Keith Anderson Dr. Keith L. Anderson is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, but lived most of his younger life in Vallejo, California. He is a graduate of Vallejo Senior High School, Solano Community College and Boise State University. He attended Utah State University, School of Graduate Studies and later…
Alastair Moock Alastair Moock is a Boston Music Awards-nominated singer-songwriter and a Grammy nominee for Best Children’s Album. In 2020, he co-founded Family Music Forward, a racial justice collective working in the family music space. That same year, he declined a second Grammy nomination – along with two other nominated…
Eljuri Music inspires us all. Eljuri and her music are a force for change. The vibrations ripple through the space between us. Eljuri is constantly exploring new sounds and these reflections. They intersect somewhere between the cultures that she was raised in and the countries of her heritage; Spain, Lebanon,…
