JOHN–MARTIN GREEN, Ed.D.
John-Martin Green, Ed.D. is Founder and Executive Director of The Gatekeeper's Collective (TGC), a resiliency enhancement network of same gender loving (SGL), gay, bisexual and Queer African descended men. As Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Blackberry Productions Theatre Company, John-Martin develops and produces theater that sheds light on issues impacting our communities, and creates forums for a multiplicity of voices and perspectives in solutions-focused reflection. As an educator, he was a co-founder and co-director over a decade, of Changing Scenes, an OBIE Award winning arts-based crisis intervention program for juvenile offenders. There he created a theatre workshop wherein participants explored their relationship to issues of human needs, power, control, self-concept, personal responsibility and societal expectations. Currently, Dr. Green teaches community health at Hostos College, of the City University of New York, and has taught theatre at New School University, Brooklyn College, and SUNY campuses at Old Westbury and Nassau Community College.
ANDY TARRADATH
Andy Tarradath (Tar-rah-DAT) is a Venezuelan born, Brooklyn raised Cultural-Futurist and co-founder of SLAY TV, a multimedia network dedicated to highlighting Queer and Trans people of color (QTPOC). Andy’s spent his early career at The New York Times as a digital-editor for T-Magazine before transitioning to creative agencies, the likes of Omnicom’s DDB and WPP’s GREY, overseeing the beauty group clients: COVERGIRL and, later, Revlon as Executive Digital Producer overseeing Digital strategy development.
Andy then went on to found the Tarradath Foundation, focusing on increasing financial literacy for marginalized communities and is currently an Equities trader.
GERMONO TOUSSAINT
Germono Toussaint is a multi-award winning composer, arranger, playwright and producer. He is the Artistic Director of A Mile In My Shoes Inc., and one of the founding playwrights of the Obie award-winning The Fire This Time Festival.
His plays have been featured in the Not for Broadway Theater Festival, Horse Trade Theater Group, All Out Arts play festival (2015 winner), New York Madness, The Fire This Time Festival, National Black Theater's Keep Soul Alive reading series and 48 Hours...in Harlem.
Toussaint has also written and arranged music for several off-Broadway theatre productions including Ritual (Stanley Bennet Clay), B-Boy Blues (James Earl Hardy) and Sistas: The Musical (Dorothy Marcic).
His arranging and music direction credits include Breath and Imagination (Daniel Beaty), (L)imitations (Marcus Gardley), Hoodoo Love (Katori Hall), The Lost Boys Live at 54 Below, Two Black Divas and a Band, Through The Ages, The Real Love Concert, Verve and The Message – an Apollo Theater Music Café featuring Crystal Monee Hall.
He recently participated in Tofte Lake Center’s 10th Annual Emerging Artist Program, was a Sheen Center Theater Artist Fellow, and a Rhymes Over Beats Artist in Residence this year. He is currently a finalist in the O'Neill Music Conference..
ULYSSES S. WILLIAMS
Jersey City native. Graduate of Saint Peter’s College BS Business Administration
Chad E. Franklin
Chad E. Franklin is the former Co-CEO of Be A Champion Foundation and brings with him a relentless focus on effective program development and a heart for eradicating issues that cripple communities. Franklin’s reputation for developing integrated solutions has many consider him a most revered problem solver in the nonprofit community. He is a graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Education, and has over 23 years of experience developing curricula and building programs and capacity for organizations such as the NYC Department of Education, Monroe County Corrections, The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and Rikers Island Correctional Facility. Franklin has overseen 3 educational companies, and holds extensive non-profit experience in professional development training and leadership roles with organizations such as the Youth Development Institute (YDI), and Hospital Audiences Inc. (HAI).
Stephen Conrad Moore
Stephen Conrad Moore is a New York based actor. Originally from Kansas City, MO, Mr. Moore relocated to NYC after graduating from the Acting program at the Yale School of Drama. Over the past decade, he has worked with John Martin Green (founder of The Gatekeepers Collective) in the capacities of performer, co-facilitator and overall community advocate. As a same gender loving (SGL) performer of African Carribean American descent, it has been his continued artistic mission to be the representation that he wished to have seen when he was younger. The representation that he believes has improved in recent times, but is still greatly hungered for. Currently, he is helping to fulfill that mission by adding to the landscape of SGL and queer characters on scripted television through his portrayal of Oliver on "The BoldType," which is now in its fourth season on the Freeform network and Hulu.
JON KEY
Jon(athan) Key is an artist, designer, and writer originally from Seale, Alabama. After receiving his BFA from RISD, Jon began his design career at Grey Advertising in NYC before moving on to work with such clients and institutions as HBO, Nickelodeon, The Public Theater, and the Whitney Museum. Jon is now one of the partners of the Brooklyn–based design studio Morcos Key with Wael Morcos.As an educator, Jon has taught at MICA, Parsons, CCA, and currently teaches at Cooper Union. Jon is also a Co-Founder and Design Director at Codify Art, a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of color, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of color. Jon was selected for Forbes 30 under 30 Art and Style list for 2020 and was the Frank Staton Chair in Graphic Design at Cooper Union 2018-2019.