Amber Victoria is a digital entrepreneur and analog artist from Asheville.
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As a multi-faceted artist and filmmaker, Keresey Pearl has valued curiosity and pioneering from an early age.
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Dr. Christine Bricker is a professor of political science at Warren Wilson College. Her research and teaching focus on American politics, specifically on political behavior, public opinion, state and local politics.
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With reporters leaving the journalism profession in droves — sometimes by choice, but more often by necessity — Virginia Daffron’s career has taken the opposite direction.
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Cortina Jenelle Caldwell, Founder & Creative Director for Artists Designing Evolution, is a queer, Two-Spirit descending from generations of Southern, West African, Latinx & Native American peoples.
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For over two years Brett has been producing, architecting, and delivering virtual reality content, consulting with brands about embracing the immersive mediums of VR and AR, and programming team building as Better Than Unicorns.
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Doc Klein has been involved with social movements for the last forty years in health, environmental awareness and action, education, and business.
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Andre Hörmann is an documentary filmmaker and has been awarded at many prestigious international festivals
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Anna Samo is an award-winning filmmaker with screenings around the world such as Berlinale, Annecy, Stuttgart, Zagreb, Encounters FF, Cork FF, Aspen Shortsfest etc.
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Dayna Reggero is an award-winning filmmaker, creative activist, and founding director of the Climate Listening Project.
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Jessica Villatoro is a student at The University of North Carolina at Asheville and is one the organizers for March for Our Lives here in Asheville and Students Demand Action.
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Justin Robinson is a Grammy award-winning musician and vocalist, cultural preservationist, and historic foodways expert.
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Cofounder and Lead instructor of JB Media Institute and President of Creative Original, Inc Sarah Benoit has worked in the web design, SEO, and social media fields since 2003 and has been teaching classes on related subjects since 2006.
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The artist and photographer Viviane D'Avilla, was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro and holds a degree in journalism, specializing in photojournalism.
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A native of Wagram, North Carolina, John Memory formed the folk-singing trio The Huntsmen in the Spring of 1962 while an undergrad at Wake Forest University.
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The lone entry in David S. Mull’s discography is a doozie—the self-released 45 “Far From Home” b/w “Some Guys Have All The Luck,” recorded in 1974 at David Rumsfeld’s Country Roads Studios in Marion, NC.
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Through the use of overdubs and overnight openings at far flung recording studios, Dan Lewis created the provate-press masterpiece, Towards the Light in 1979—one of only a handful of purely local musical artifacts that document Asheville’s underground music scene during the ’70s.
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Matt Arnett is an art historian, filmmaker, music producer, and curator, whose primary interest is in the art and culture of the African American South.
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Ellen’s passion for the medium of film is the result of both her personal journey and her professional career as a film development and acquisitions executive and producer. For more than 20 years, Ellen has worked at screening, programming, acquiring, developing and producing films.
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Kate Maloney, PhD is the CEO & Producer of WeRiseUP The Movie and Movement that features the United Nations and key global leaders.
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