Speakers & Facilitators
Claudia Alick
Claudia Alick is performer, producer, and inclusion expert. Named by American Theater Magazine as one of 25 theater artists who will shape American Theater in the next 25 years, Alick has served as the founding Artistic Director of Smokin' Word Productions, is a NY Neofuturist alum, published playwright, recipient of NYC Fresh Fruit directing award, TedXFargo speaker, the Lilla Jewel Award for Women Artists, featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and former Community Producer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. At OSF for ten years she produced events such as “The Every 28 Hours Plays”, "The Green Show", The Daedalus Project, OSF Open Mics as well as producing/directing audio-plays with OSF such as the Grammy nominated "Hamlet". Her personal projects include her podcast “Hold On…Wait for it”, vlog “This Week in Cultural Appropriation”, StreetPoetry, and one-person Show “Fill in the Blank” exploring disability and the medical industry. Claudia served on Oregon Arts Leaders in Inclusion, the steering committee of The Ghostlight Project, the steering committee for Black Theater Commons, and is currently co-president of the board of Network of Ensemble Theater, She is currently the executive producer of the transmedia social justice company CALLING UP.
Follow her work:
ClaudiaAlick.com // Patreon.com/Claudiaalick
Pamela Capalad
Pamela Capalad is a Certified Financial Planner™ and Accredited Financial Counselor™ and has been in the financial services industry since 2008. She founded Brunch & Budget to help people who felt ashamed or embarrassed about money have a safe and friendly place to talk about it and make real financial progress. Her mission is to make financial planning as affordable as possible for the communities who need it most. She co-hosts the Brunch & Budget podcast and co-founded the Race & Wealth Podcast Network. She also runs a group financial planning program called See Change, specifically designed for People of Color. Pam has been featured in the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, Vice Magazine, and other places you’ve heard of. She was named in New York Magazine’s Best of New York 2019 and has brunched with over 400 people and counting.
Emily DeDakis (LMDA Microturgy Facilitator)
Emily DeDakis grew up in the southeast U.S. and now lives in north Belfast. A writer, producer and dramaturg, Emily is currently associate artist with Fighting Words NI (a creative writing centre for young people), coordinating and mentoring their teen playwriting projects. As a dramaturg, Emily has developed dozens of scripts and performances including immersive, 24-hour, multimedia, verbatim and dance theatre. Emily is a member of LMDA and the Dramaturgs’ Network (UK/Ireland) and often works with foolsFURY and Golden Thread (San Francisco). She is the recipient of a BBC Performing Arts Fund dramaturgy fellowship, and has taught playwriting at Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University. Emily’s writing has appeared in numerous publications and on BBC radio and television. She sings in the experimental choir HIVE and often collaborates with sonic artists on audio/text pieces.
Anita Holland (Art Share Coordinator)
Anita Holland is a writer, artist, and facilitator of the healing arts. Anita’s work interrogates language and imagery, excavates ancestry, and strolls with the jungian shadow. They are building a creative family in Philadelphia. In addition to their own work Anita has appeared on stage at InterAct, Orbiter 3, Simpatico, PolyGlamourous, Philadelphia Artists Collective, Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists, CCTC, Theatre Exile, StageWest, People’s Productions, Alma’s Engine etc. They’ve created original roles in collaboration with Headlong Dance Theater (incubated artist), Annie Wilson, Swim Pony, The Painted Bride, Perfect Day, Black Best Friend and Applied Mechanics (Company Member.)
Brian "Dyalekt" Kushner
Brian "Dyalekt" Kushner is a hip-hop MC and the director of pedagogy at Pockets Change, where he uses hip-hop pedagogy to demystify personal finance and help students take control of their relationship with money. He’s rocked (performed/taught/keynoted) everywhere from conferences like AFCPE and Prosperity Now, to stages like SXSW and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to classrooms that range from Yale to your cousin’s living room. He also co-hosts the Brunch & Budget podcast, which discusses personal finance and racial economic inclusion.
Kanyon Sayers-Roods
Kanyon Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone-Mutsun and Chumash; she also goes by her given Native name, “Coyote Woman”. She is proud of her heritage and her native name (though it comes with its own back story), and is very active in the Native Community. She is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. The daughter of Ann-Marie Sayers, she was raised in Indian Canyon, trust land of her family, which currently is one of the few spaces in Central California available for the Indigenous community for ceremony. Kanyon’s art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Gathering Tribes, Snag Magazine, and numerous Powwows and Indigenous Gatherings. She is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of California, Sunnyvale, obtaining her Associate and Bachelor of Science degrees in Web Design and Interactive Media. She is motivated to learn, teach, start conversations around decolonization and reinidgenization, permaculture and to continue doing what she loves, Art.
ïe chié
ïe chié means path to the moon in Muysccubun. Everything I create is to honor my ancestors and to revitalize Muisca culture. My purpose as an artist is to educate others on my peoples and our magic. Despite colonizers trying to eradicate our existence, I still live on and my creations will never die. I am here to take up space that was taken from me. My art is me yelling “ I AM MYSCA I AM HERE I AM QUEER” in the hopes of someone seeing my work and saying those exact words back to me.
Pierre Joseph
Pierre is the principal at PE Joseph Consulting LLC. He supports foundations, philanthropic serving organizations, and nonprofits to deepen their strategy and accelerate impact. His work intersects with how emerging financing strategies, blended funding streams and democratized access to capital can build wealth, expand opportunity, and increase economic mobility in underserved communities throughout the United States.
TGNC Advocacy Collective
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