Nikki Jean first gained major recognition in 2008, when she was featured on Lupe Fiasco's single "Hip-Hop Saved My Life". He uses photography to tell stories about an organization, and works with businesses to find creative solutions. Uzoma Obasi is the CEO of The Creative Group LLC, a multi-faceted production business consisting of Creative Mind Studios and Creative Copilot. Her goal is to understand the connections of people, spaces and history-particularly as a Black woman living in Minnesota. Patience Zalanga uses her work as a documentation of Black life, with a heavy focus on the Black Lives Matter movement and the Black community’s response to the murders of unarmed Black men. As a filmmaker, photographer, and educator Adja is committed to fighting oppression in any form and supporting youth and adults to access tools to build and maintain agency and power. LeShon Lee is a photographer and videographer, specializing in portrait photography, wedding photography, and music videos.Īdja Gildersleve spent years as an organizer of the Black Lives Movement and is now the Co-director of Free Truth-a media company using art as a tool for liberation. She uses illustration as her voice to educate, celebrate black beauty, influence and empower Black girls, and push good energy into the world. Kprecia Ambers is a freelance illustrator and the founder of KP Inspires. She examines and re-imagines relationships to racial identities through decolonizing and healing the collective understanding of belonging and what it means to be family. Leslie Barlow shares stories of multiculturalism, identity, representations, trauma and race through her oil paintings and mixed material art pieces. Their art has been featured in gallery shows and they are currently working full-time creating motion graphics for nonprofits and public awareness campaigns. Noah Lawrence-Holder's work highlights queer and black artists through illustrations, animation, motion graphics and comics. He serves as an arts administrator, educator and community activist who focuses on public art and collaborative projects. His work has included themes of local history, and his own style of rhythmic pattern and spirit writing. Aiken has helped create over 300 murals and public art sculptures. Books: The Stars and the Blackness Between Them She uses her Black-Caribbean roots to inspire her work as well as themes of Black-diasporic-futurism, queerness, ancestral healing, and liberation. Junauda Petrus is a writer, pleasure activist, filmmaker and performance artist. Books: My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Rock the Boat: How to Use Conflict to Heal and Deepen Your Relationship, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning, and Life, Leadership, and Legacy: 101 Tips for Emerging Justice Leaders Menakem is a NY Times best selling author. He authored a groundbreaking book which discusses how racism doesn’t just affect the mind, but is deeply embedded in the body. Resmaa Menakem is a local therapist and trauma specialist based in Minneapolis. Books: John Crow's Devil, The Book of Night Women, A Brief History of Seven Killings, and The Dark Star Trilogy: Black Leopard, Red Wolf (#1), Moon Witch, Spider King (#2), and The Boy and the Dark Star (#3) James is also an associate professor of English at Macalester College in St. Many of his works include themes of life in Jamaica and colonialism. His novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, won the 2015 Man Booker Prize, making James the first Jamaican author to take home the U.K.’s most prestigious literary award. Marlon James has become one of the most decorated local authors in Minneapolis.
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