Featured Guests & Voices
W. Kamau Bell is a comedian, author, and filmmaker. His CNN docu-series "United Shades of America" won five Emmy awards, and he was awarded a Peabody for his docu-series "We Need To Talk About Cosby." He is most proud of his Emmy award-winning HBO Original documentary "1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed." Kamau is a NYT best-selling author, is on the board of Donors Choose, Live Free, and Back To The Start, and he is one of the ACLU's Celebrity Ambassadors for Racial Justice.
W. Kamau Bell
Award-winning author, speaker, and podcast host focused on courage and community.
Michelle MiJung Kim
Cava Menzies
Director, CO-LLAB Choir
Allison Skylr, Clarice Janine, Candace Goodwin, Zoë Boston, and Marc Allen
CO-LLAB Choir Members
An Oakland-based contemporary vocal ensemble for vocal artists and singer-songwriters. Our purpose is to express healing, love, & unity through sound.
Jim LeBrecht is an award-winning filmmaker, disability rights activist, and co-director of the groundbreaking documentary Crip Camp. A Netflix Original Documentary, Crip Camp, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, went on to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature and a Peabody Award.
Jim LeBrecht
Grace Porras is an Emmy Award-Winning Producer for the HBO Original Documentary “1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed,” Co-Founder of #MakeItBay and a freelance Creative Producer with over a decade of experience working across unscripted, scripted, branded content and live production.
Grace Porras
Based in Oakland, California, Smalls’ work studies the kaleidoscopic depth of Black and Brown skin through the layering of highly pigmented color. It celebrates the endless nuances of melanated womxn by amplifying and exaggerating the underlying tones in colored skins that are often depicted dulled down or neglected, much like the people who inhabit them. Smalls has been working as a gynocentric painter since 2012, and continues to do so out of her West Oakland studio.
Taylor Smalls
Niema Jordan is a writer, speaker, professor, and an award-winning filmmaker from Oakland, CA. She is passionate about character-driven stories, harnessing the power of media for positive community impact, and ensuring that future generations have an opportunity to thrive.
Her work has been published in ESSENCE, EBONY, and Glamour. Her documentary film "Oasis," which explores a struggling medical clinic's work with underserved populations battling Hepatitis C, earned her the Spike Lee Student Filmmaker Award at the Denver Film Festival in 2016. Her production credits include The Chosen Life, Bobby Kennedy for President, The Me You Can’t See, Eyes On The Prize: Hallowed Ground, and Bree Wayy: Promise, Witness, Remembrance.
She is an alumna of Northwestern University and UC Berkeley. She is also a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and serves on the board of Oakland Kids First.