Kelley Nicole Girod is a producer, known mostly for founding the Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival. She was recently named Director of New Works at the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem. She is also an award winning playwright recently named Sundance IDP 2021 Grantee, Parity Productions 2021 Commission, and Atlantic Launch New Play Commission, among others. She edited and curated The Fire This Time's first anthology of plays to be published by Bloomsbury UK/Methuen Drama in January 2022. Kelley is also a proud mother to Penelope Evelyn and Noelle Anamarie.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Fire This Time Festival

Zhailon Levingston is a Louisiana-raised storyteller, director, and activist. He is a Board Member and Creative Director for the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, which he co-created, and teaches the Theatre of Change course at Columbia University.

Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Broadway Advocacy Coalition