V. Kali A 58-year East coast Transplant to Los ANgeles with a love for weather in her veins, V. Kalos lives and breathes as a Poet, writer, actor, vegan, chef, calligrapher, mother, Nana, healing agent [midwife, doula, Reiki practitoner, massage therapist, nurse], and taught Transcedental Mediatation for 25 years, As a performance artist V. Kalis has graced the stages of the Getty Museum, Grand Performances, House of Blues, Agape International Spiritual Center, Catlina Bar and Grill and most recently, the 2015-16 season of Center Theater Group production of THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS at the Kirk Douglas Theater.

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Sadiki Bakari is a proven futurist, an empowerment specialist, master trainer, one of the preeminent visual lecturers of his generation and has created a three dimensional (literary, visual and audio) blueprint for our progeny. Armed with the ancestor’s primordial intelligence, he is able to invoke the genome of one’s DNA. His lectures and seminars bring forth a renewal of the spirit, cleansing of the soul and a call to action. Bakari is also an international organizer, fearless visionary, luminary, published author, columnist, people’s advocate and explosive spoken word artisan. His creativity and unique style of interfacing with the spirit and meta-information gives Sadiki the rare ability of seizing the moment and awakening the divinity of his audiences.

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KOKAYI KWA JITAHIDI, Co-Founder of “The Maat Institute”, Senior Community Organizer for the Green Buildings, Good Jobs Project at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE). Kokayi has worked as a Union Organizer with both AFSME and SEIU and served as a leader with local social service agencies.