Susan Naimark is an independent consultant and trainer who integrates decades of experience in nonprofit community development, public education organizing, and racial justice education. Her work supports racial equity capacity building for community-based organizations, nonprofits, schools, and public agencies. She served eight years on the Boston School Committee, authored The Education of a White Parent: Wrestling with Race and Opportunity in the Boston Public Schools, teaches part-time at UMass Boston, and is an affiliate consultant with Interaction Institute for Social Change. Susan believes we will never create truly just and equitable communities without addressing the deep legacy of racism in the United States.

Dr. Sinclair-McBride is an attending psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Training Director of the BCH Psychology Internship. She conducts research on depression and anxiety in youth with a special focus on integrated behavioral healthcare within primary care settings. The overarching goal of her work is to increase access to high quality behavioral healthcare for BIPOC youth. Dr. Sinclair-McBride’s work is published in a variety of academic journals and textbooks. She speaks throughout the country on behavioral healthcare topics and provides trainings on evidenced-based behavioral healthcare delivery.

Dr. Rose Ashraf is a psychology fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine. Rose’s research and clinical work focuses on immigrant and ethnic minority mental health, complex trauma, and multiculturalism. She is also active in training, mentorship, and public health initiatives. During her training, Rose completed clinical externships in pediatric neuropsychology, primary care for children in foster care, and community mental health. She also partnered with the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas to provide psychological services to individuals who have survived traumas and are seeking legal status.

Tanya Nixon-Silberg (she/her) is a Black Mother, Artist, Educator, Radical Dreamer from Boston, MA. Tanya transforms theory into practice, translates concepts into conversation, and works alongside children to reimagine a just world. Tanya is the founder of Little Uprisings, a new project that focuses on deeper relationships with institutions that serve kids to make racial justice an everyday goal. Kids+Art+Justice is her recipe for liberation and kid-powered revolutions. As a member of Puppet ShowplaceTheatre’s Incubator for New Works program, she produced and co-created a puppet production of Innosanto Nagara’s My Night in the Planetarium funded by The Boston Foundation and The Jim Henson Foundation. Her liberation work has been in many arts institutions in Greater Boston including the Boston Public Library, Institute for Contemporary Art, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and the Peabody Essex Museum.

Mama, Teaching Artist, Artivist, and Art activator

Zahirah Nur Truth is a multifaceted artist with an art practice that is varied via paintings, murals, jewelry and performance. Known as a facilitator, innovator and motivator. I have collaborated on community engagement learning opportunities with arts organizations to create art or workshops that are inclusive to all. Building community partnerships with Boston Public Library, Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Boston Food Forest Coalition. I teach art practices from the youngest to the oldest artist at heart. I integrated social justice, cultural awareness and trauma informed educational approach into my curriculum. I earned my AS in Early Childhood Education, with an Arts Program focus from Bunker Hill Community College. I am soon to be a graduate of the BFA program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston. I believe there are no mistakes in Art...

Corey DePina is the Youth Development and Performance Manager for Zumix in East Boston. He grew up in Roxbury as a first generation American from a family of Cape Verdean immigrants. Now living in West Roxbury, Corey is an accomplished rapper and a skilled workshop and program facilitator. He performs and teaches all over the United States. He served on the Board for Critical Breakdown - one of Boston's biggest and longest running all-age open mics - and has done workshops on the history of hip hop as well as creative writing and performance. Corey studied for two years at Massachusetts Communication College and has completed many BEST Initiative youth worker trainings, including the Advanced Youth Workers Certificate program. Corey continues to share his passion of performance, social justice, hip hop, and education to help convey the important role music plays in both personal and community development. His current endeavor is fusion-conscious homemade lyrics to heavy Dubstep music to help spice up his creative writing and performance.