Larissa is an illustrator, muralist, and educator from Galveston, TX. She is currently an Artistic Associate at Creative Action, and Assistant Director of Color Squad where she co-facilitates the public and community art teen program. Larissa studied Advertising and Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and received her BS in Communication Studies from The University of Texas at Austin. She continues to dedicate much of her time honing her craft, building relationships with artists and community members, organizing arts events, and painting murals.
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Olivia Evans
Olivia Evans is a Multidisciplinary Visual artist based in Spokane, WA, working in video, photography, drawing, and film. She is an Associate Producer with The Alliance, working on exhibition programs in the Pacific Northwest. A recent graduate of EWU with a BFA in Studio Art, Olivia was selected to participate in Saturate 2017, a competitive, city-wide collaborative exhibition in Spokane for artists of color, galleries and local businesses.
Kapi’olani (Pio) Lee
Kapi’olani (Pio) Lee is a visual artist and seasoned arts educator. A graduate of the MFA Cinema program at San Francisco State University, she developed her arts education practice as a digital storytelling and media literacy instructor in the Bay Area. Through her partnerships with a diverse array of nonprofit and youth-outreach programs dedicated to social justice and cultural equity, she has helped create and support youth-centered curriculum and arts programming that value inclusion, accessibility, ownership, and intergenerational collaboration.
Gemikia Henderson
Gemikia Henderson has garnered national acclaim for her RYSE music videos using powerful imagery and storytelling to bring to life the music of her peers. Her award-winning first video, Street Literature, was made in response to the murder of Oscar Grant, and along with her other videos, Ryse Up and Change Gon’ Come, have screened at film festivals in New York, LA, New Orleans and Philadelphia.
Aden Suchak
Aden Suchak is a Director, Photographer and Writer based in Upstate New York. He is part of the Youth FX film organization in Albany where he works as a film producer and Director of Education. He is a Media Fellow of the Alliance for Media + Culture Youth Media Network Initiative.
Chris Johnson
Chris Johnson studied photography with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and Wynn Bullock and has been the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation (w/Hank Willis Thomas); AICA Mellon Foundation Grant for Photography and Polaroid Foundation Artist Grants, among many others.
Emily Verellen Strom
Emily Verellen Strom is a senior media executive with fifteen years of diverse experience developing stories, curating content, building partnerships...
Andy Beach
Andy Beach works at Microsoft as a Principal SDE with the Communications and Media Team. With more than 20 years...
Gemikia Henderson
Gemikia has garnered national acclaim for her RYSE music videos using powerful imagery and storytelling to bring to life the music...
Christina Orticke
Christina Orticke is the Senior Consulting Producer for Arts2Work, a creative workforce development initiative of The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture. Christina has over 25 years of experience working with large international public and private corporations, start-ups, minority-owned/women-owned enterprises, and nonprofit organizations.