Gregory Adams was a founding member of Station-to-Station Performance Poets and Writers’ Collective, a seminal group in DC’s Black LGBT arts scene that gave birth to the ENIKAlley Coffeehouse. His writing has been published in Blacklight Magazine and Nethula Journal.

Michelle Parkerson is a writer, lecturer, performer, and award-winning filmmaker. Her documentaries on Black women artists (Sweet Honey in the Rock, Betty Carter) and LGBTQ icons (Audre Lorde, Stormé DeLarverie) have screened at major international film festivals and aired on PBS.

Pamela A. Jafari is former Executive Director of Serenity Players, Inc. She has worked with the national touring production Walk Like a Man, and with the National Theatre of Ghana. She performs with District Community Playback and is the author of The Butterfly Waltz.

Christopher Prince is a multi-talented vocalist, poet, performer, and activist whose work explores the social, spiritual, and political misconceptions that leave us vulnerable to manipulation. His poetry has been published in Callaloo, Blacklight Magazine, and Black Bear Review.

Producer
Shellée Haynesworth

Humanities Scholars
Dr. Darius Bost
E. Ethelbert Miller

Advisory Committee
Sheila Alexander-Reid
Mara Cherkasky
Sharon Farmer
Earl D. Fowlkes, Jr.
L. Michael Gipson
Chuck Hicks
Courtney Williams

Wayson R. Jones is a musician, performer, and visual artist. A founding member of the choral poetry trio Cinque (with Essex Hemphill and Larry Duckette), he has appeared in Isaac Julien’s film Looking for Langston and Marlon Riggs’ videos Tongues Untied and Black Is, Black Ain’t.