Zakiyyah is an artist-changemaker who utilizes music and visual media to explore themes that centralize marginalized communities via her production company, Black and Bold Productions. As an actress and classically-trained singer who is well-versed in Opera, Hip-Hop, Jazz, and R&B, she employs her extremely versatile skill-set to reach a broad range of audiences and craft a sound that is uniquely her own—including her most well-known creation, “Hip-Hopera.”
Zakiyyah has served as a racial equity consultant through Arts Connect International, a peer mentor for Music to Life, an artistic partner with Boston Children’s Chorus, and currently teaches voice through Harvard’s Holden Voice Program. Her recent TEDx Talk, “Being Good Is a Privilege,” highlights the repercussions of overlooking class in our quest for social change.
Terry Borderline is a performer, songwriter, producer, recording engineer, event planner, editor, and recording artist ushering knowledge into the world through music, events, services and audio/visual creative content. Building on centuries and generations of musical achievement and progress Terry Borderline devotes his life and career towards his purpose birthing a new age of healing and sound.
Paul Willis is a Hip Hop Teaching Artist who is currently writing a book, album, and curriculum about Hip Hop Leadership.
Haasan is a songwriter, producer and visual artist from Boston, MA who has built a name for himself with a style unbound by conventional labels. His unique blend of psychedelic Shoegaze with hip hop and RnB has been featured in Complex, VFILES, Allston Pudding, and NPR affiliate WBUR, as well as through exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art and Boston Center for the Arts and brand partnerships with Giphy, Topo Chico and ARP Instruments.
Pink Navel is a non-binary rapper originally based out of the South Shore of MA,but has relocated to Maine to join Ruby Yacht at their headquarters. As a self-proclaimed Nintendo and Disney collector, Navel’s music tends to blend the carefree cadence of cartoons with introspective lyrics on gender identity and mental health.
