HaJ, an Emmy-nominated film, video, media producer and performance artist formerly of the development team of Sony and Ayoka Chenzira, Division Chair of Arts & Humanities, Spelman College, an award-winning, internationally acclaimed film and video artist. A pioneer in Black independent cinema, Chenzira is one of the first African-American women to write, produce and direct a 35mm feature film, "Alma’s Rainbow," one of Billboard Magazine’s top 40 home video rentals. She is also noted as the first African-American woman animator.
Chenzira was invited to serve as the first William and Camille Cosby Endowed Professor in the Arts at Spelman College in 2001, producing a wildly successful multimedia stage version of her screenplay, "Flying Over Purgatory" (starring legendary actress Ruby Dee and featuring a South African cast), which was featured on CNN Headlines/CNN Inside Africa.  Chenzira also received the HBCU Digest's "Female Faculty Member of the Year" award in 2014.

This mommy-daughter and writing-directing duo are committed to creating projects that analyze, deconstruct and sometimes satirize racial and social identities.  Simply put, they make us laugh out loud and shake our head about the way black people are portrayed in the media, using the arts as a vehicle.

Their current project, FUNNEL CAKE FLOWERS & THE URBAN CHAMELEONS is a multi-media stage show about being black in corporate white America.  The satirical project analyzes how and why people of color still feel the need to put on the mask and police our emotions in front of white people.