Award-winning playwright, actor, producer, and educator, Fanshen Cox (she/they) is the Founder of TruJuLo Productions. Fanshen served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cape Verde, West Africa, and holds a BA in Spanish & Education, an MA in TESOL, and an MFA in TV, Film & Theatre. They have been honored with Distinguished Alumni Awards from CSULA and from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an honorary MFA in producing from New York Film Academy. Fanshen is also a co-author of the Inclusion Rider which was announced at the 2018 Oscar awards by Frances McDormand and the co-creator, producer and host of the Webby nominated podcast Sista Brunch. She is a highly sought after speaker on narrative for impact, and on diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging.

free feral plays with sound, story, lyric, and music to curate multidimensional experiences that encourage embodied listening and maroon methodologies. As a musician and composer, they create scores for film, theatre, and dance using strings, loops, and vocals. As a writer, they like to explore non-fiction narratives through a poet’s eye view. They co-hosted and produced the first 2 seasons of the Last Call: New Orleans Dyke Bar Oral Project Podcast, and co-created We Are the Promised Land with Annette Hollowell. free holds a BM from Oberlin Conservatory, a Certificate in Documentary Studies from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, and an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi.

Gabrielle Wyatt is the founder of The Highland Project and host of Meet Me at the Highland™. An investor, futurist, and strategist, she centers Black women’s leadership, imagination, legacy, and collective possibility through intimate conversations with changemakers, artists, founders, and cultural architects.