Meet the Guides
Swipe down to learn more about our A.Y.C. team, guest artisans, & camp volunteers!
The A.Y.C. Team
Monique Marshall
(A.Y.C. co-founder)
Monique is the founder and principal of Monique Marshall Strategy and Consulting LLC. As an innovator and thought leader in anti-bias/anti-racist education, Monique has worked for over 30 years with faculty, students, parents, and community members to develop and sustain equitable spaces of learning and belonging. Monique is especially passionate about working with young people who are naturally curious, open, and eager to be change-makers in the world. A.Y.C. is the heart and soul of her work as an anti-racist educator.
Sandi Crozier
(A.Y.C. co-founder)
Working with young people has been life-changing for me. The curiosity, passion, determination, and self-reflectiveness they reveal daily are inspiring. Their hopes and aspirations for a better world are a catalyst for my own hopefulness and motivation to work towards creating change for more equity and social consciousness. I love words - reading them, writing them, and exchanging them, and I believe they hold enormous power. I can’t wait to collaborate and share during our time at AYC!
Moreau Halliburton
(A.Y.C. Music Facilitator & Website Designer)
I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California: a city defined by its diversity, inequity, and unapologetic creative energy. That energy helps me work not only for myself but for those who find comfort and discomfort in my personal expression. I identify as a creator, musician, improvisor, activist, and lover of children! I graduated from Lawrence University with a self-designed major in Music Identity Studies. My goal with this major is to teach and use music as a catalyst for healthy identity development. When I create, I strive to be transparent and help others feel seen through my vulnerability. My mother, Monique, has taught me to love ALL of my identities and use them for positive change in my world. I can't wait to make impactful music with your children during A.Y.C. 2022!
Jonah Sharp
(A.Y.C. Music Facilitator)
BIO COMING SOON
Carolyn Peralta
I have been an elementary educator for the past 15 years. One of the most rewarding parts of the job has been listening to students voice their want and need to create a more equitable world. They are our future and the ones that will speak out and up about inclusion and belonging. Together they can change systems, attitudes, and structures. I am honored to be working with the AYC Team and look forward to encouraging and supporting our campers with such important work.
Guest Artisans
Ernesto Colín
(Aztec Culture Bearer)
Dr. Ernesto Colín is a visual artist and Aztec Dancer. He is a former public high school teacher and currently teaches at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Originally from Northern California, he is a part of large Mexican family who supports him through everything and provides lots of excitement. He has college degrees in Anthropology, Education, Spanish, and Chicanx Studies. His hobbies include playing many sports, taking care of his dogs, world travel, pop culture, trail running, binge watching shows, radio hosting, gardening, and chess.
Kusum Nairi
(Visual Culture Educator)
I was born and raised in India and immigrated to the U.S. for college. I have a masters in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in sculpture and installation where I learned that art is the ultimate expression of our unique and diverse selves. I have worked as an art educator with young children for the past 21 years and have a passion for fostering and facilitating each student’s innate curiosity and creativity through visual expression.
Rory Ahern
(White Anti-Racist)
Rory Ahern is a rising senior at Loyola Marymount University studying Women’s & Gender Studies with minors in Spanish and Studio Arts. He is originally from coastal Massachusetts, although he plans on staying in California after graduation. His hobbies include drawing, painting and any form of art, hiking, traveling, watching movies/shows, reading and cooking!
Ariane White
(White Anti-Racist)
Dr. Ariane White is a longtime K-12 educator and facilitator of restorative practices, emphasizing community-building strategies to cultivate healthy relationships and to shift culture to foster equity and inclusion. Dr. White currently directs the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Center Alliance at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) as part of a national network of TRHT campus centers hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. She previously served as the supervisor and coordinator of clinical fieldwork in the School of Education at LMU and is a graduate of LMU’s Educational Leadership for Social Justice program, where her research focused on restorative justice in schools. Drawing upon her work with AWARE-LA, Dr. White co-founded AWARE-LMU to invite white colleagues in the LMU community to support each other in the ongoing work of becoming allies and co-conspirators engaging in anti-racist work.
Camp Volunteers
Maggie Bice
("Blog-Runner")
I grew up and currently live in Ankeny, Iowa. In high school, I learned the depth of my love for music and the people I met through it. I continued my involvement as a singer and bass player while studying Government in college at Lawrence University where I met Moreau and Jonah. I first learned of the Anti-racist Youth Coalition from Moreau when I watched the video of the first Activist Song created in 2020. When I heard that the 2022 camp would be held in person, I volunteered to help make it happen. I look forward to learning and creating with this year’s "artivists"!
