EISA DAVIS is an award-winning actor, writer, and singer-songwriter working on stage and screen. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Bulrusher (Best of Bay Area Theater 2023), and wrote and starred in Angela’s Mixtape, named a best of the year by The New Yorker. Other plays include Ramp (Ruby Prize winner), The History of Light (Barrymore nomination), Paper Armor, Umkovu, Six Minutes, Warriors Don’t Cry, ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||, and Mushroom. Angela’s Mixtape + The History of Light are now published together in a volume from 53rd State Press/TCG. Collaborations include AFROFEMONONOMY // WORK THE ROOTS, Maze at The Shed, The House on Coco Road, Active Ingredients, Hip Hop Anansi, and Cirque du Soleil’s first ice show, Crystal. Current projects include a sound art installation/performance piece entitled The Essentialisn’t, and songs for a musical version of Devil In A Blue Dress. Eisa wrote for both seasons of the Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It, and co-wrote two episodes for the FX series Justified: City Primeval. She is the co-writer of the WARRIORS concept album with Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Fresh off her debut appearances on the Jimmy Fallon late night show, and the Peabody Awards show, Mumu Fresh (also known as Maimouna Youssef ) is a GRAMMY-Nominated, Indigenous Music award winning, 3x WAMMY award winning, (Washington Award Winning,) Musical Ambassador for the US State Department, formerly elected governor and Co-Chair of the Social Action Committee for the GRAMMY DC Chapter of The Recording Academy, 3 x Tiny Desk performer & an Ambassador of The Black Music Collective.

Mumu Fresh has  toured internationally for two decades as a critically acclaimed Afro- Indigenous singer, sound healer, Emcee, songwriter, activist, workshop facilitator, vocal producer, arranger and musical director who's been called a “quadruple threat” by The Roots’ Black Thought and “groundbreaking” by Oscar-winning artist, Common.

In the fall of 2024 Mumu Fresh and her mother Wapajea Walks on Water won a grant from the  Wayfarer Foundation to open their family sound healing wellness center, “Mountain Eagle Place”. Since its opening they have hosted retreats regarding spiritual cleansing, sound healing , yoga, permaculture, natural clay building, cultural decolonization and overall restoration. 

“We are the underdog, we’re the fighters getting ready for the next round…”

Martha Redbone is an American vocalist, songwriter, composer, educator, and United States Artist Fellow, celebrated for her “brilliant collision of cultures” (The New Yorker), embodying the folk and mountain blues sounds of her childhood in “Coal country” Harlan County, Kentucky with the eclectic grit of her teenage years in pre-gentrified Brooklyn. With music that celebrates her Southeastern Indigenous and African American culture, Martha broadens the boundaries of American Roots music. Songs and storytelling share her life experience as an Afro-Indigenous woman in an ever-changing world. Working in partnership with longtime collaborator Aaron Whitby, their works include Original Music and Score for the 2022 Broadway revival “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuff, Ntozake Shange and 2020 Drama Desk Award- Outstanding Composer in a Play, Public Theater, NYC. Their musical works uplift issues of social justice, connecting cultures and celebrating the human spirit.

Sxip Shirey is an international composer, producer, sound artist, and sonic pioneer. His compositions, performances and curated evenings “Sxip’s Hour of Charm” established him as a fixture in New York’s underground art scene and internationally. He makes music, sound design and Foley for theater, dance and film. His community-inclusive, immersive choral works, "The Gauntlet," developed with Coco Karol, have been created for Rockefeller Center, The Sydney Opera House, Bard College, Friends of the Highline, Cleveland Museum of Art, and virtually in 3D immersive sound for NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center.  He is a collaborator of singer, scholar, and song composer Rhiannon Giddens, and released tracks together that include “All Babies Must Cry,” “Woman of Constant Sorrow,” and “Just the Two of Us.” 

Britton Smith is a Tony Award–winning artist, advocate, and co-founder of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition. His work lives at the intersection of storytelling, music, and social impact, rooted in a commitment to connection and collective responsibility. He is the creator of Return to MAMA, a concert experience and concept album that explores water as a source of memory, identity, and care. The project expands into the MAMA Impact Tour, launching nationally in 2026 to bring performances and community engagement to cities impacted by water inequities. For this work, Britton was named a Hydro20 Honoree (2025). As bandleader of Britton & The Sting, he has performed at venues including The Apollo Theater, Joe’s Pub, and National Sawdust, earning recognition from NPR, Vogue, and The New Yorker among others. He is also the co-creator of the Theater of Change methodology, taught at Columbia Law School, bridging art, advocacy, and civic dialogue. @brittonsmithworld