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Nyemade Boiwu is an award-winning writer, speaker, and digital content strategist. She’s also had a 14-year career at one of the leading banks in the country. In addition to her career, community involvement has always been important to Nyemade. She’s the moderator for NAMI Delaware’s monthly Sharing Hope Community Conversations. She is the Executive Director for Every Man Counts and the Program Director for Empower & Educate. Nyemade strives to use her talent for communication to raise awareness about various social issues. She's the lifestyle editor for Queen Size Magazine, co-host of YouTube show More Than My Size, she does IG live interviews twice a week and she contributes as a freelance writer to several publications throughout the nation.

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https://linktr.ee/thatafricanbutterfly

Chanel Ali is a comedian who blossomed on the Philadelphia circuit before taking her commanding stage presence and story-teller style to NYC. In 2019 she was a Just For Laughs New Face and she has been featured on networks like TruTV, Starz, Comedy Central, BET, MTV and more.

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Sydney Claire is a New York City-based Fashion Editorial Photographer. A graduate in May of the Lesley College of Art and Design. Her love for color, composition, and light is expressed through her loud, powerful portraiture and fashion work. She prides herself in shooting a wide range of diversity and is constantly looking for ways to make work that is not only innovative but challenges and deconstructs society's social norms. 

Vogue Italia: Portfolio  

Email: [email protected] 

Instagram: @___sydneyclaire  

Website: Sydney Claire Photography   

Sam Renee is a photographer and videographer serving NJ, NY, and PA. Her focus is producing promotional content for women of color in business to help them leverage their offers and position themselves to increase sales and engagement.  

Link: www.perimeterproductions.net 

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Christine Ann Olivas

Former homeschooled Fundamentalist. Marketer. Comic, storyteller, writer. Creator: 7 shows. Founder: @offmiccomedyschool

From her Fundamentalist Christian, homeschooled upbringing to her liberal arts education in California, Christine’s life has been a study in extremes. But whether we’re talking organized religion or modern media, Christine insists on asking provocative, important questions about the ideas and practices we take for granted. Especially if they negatively affect women, body image, and sex.

Christine started her arts journey as a fiction writer, with short stories focused on on the intersection of gender, sex, and technology. She gives us complex female characters that are both longing for more and self-isolating in a world that doesn’t seem to understand them or want them to exist. Her short fiction has been published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Paper Darts, Breakwater Review, Alternating Current, Aptly, and on Catapult Community. She is also currently working on a full-length book about her life that will combine personal essay and memoir.

When Christine relocated to Philly in 2018, she began studying and performing two new art forms: first-person storytelling and standup comedy. Since then, she has performed on local comedy/storytelling shows (Tell Me a Story, Comedy Incarnate, Story Hole, and Pass the Mic, to name a few) and at established venues in Philly (Punchline, Good Good Comedy Theatre, Philly Improv Theater), Tempe, Las Vegas, and NYC (Greenwich Village Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club).

Christine is also a talented, visionary show producer in her own right, creating and hosting comedy shows that equally benefit performers and venues — while thoroughly engaging audiences. After creating Jenkintown’s first comedy showcase, she now hosts “The Afternoon After,” Philly’s first and only daytime open mic. She is also the brain behind and co-producer of “No Mo’ Sexual FOMO,” a monthly experience combining standup and sex education. Since the pandemic began, Christine has quickly pivoted to taking standup comedy online. Already, she has produced and hosted a recurring virtual roast battle called Doomsday, two editions of Fools for Good (which benefits Philly venues, performers and non-profits), and is working on a virtual edition of No Mo’ Sexual FOMO.

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https://www.christinesgotstories.com/

http://www.offmiccomedyschool.com/

Natasha Nurse is a coach, speaker, and content creator. She started Dressing Room 8  to provide a web-based resource for women to gain personal and professional empowerment through her fashion and lifestyle focused blog and coaching services. Natasha focuses her coaching on media, career, and accountability. Lastly, she is the Co-Host for the innovative and entertaining podcast called WokeNFree.

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Dr Michelle Myers is one half the spoken word duo called Yellow Rage. They are two Philadelphia-based Asian American female spoken word poets, made up of Michelle Myers, who holds a PhD from Temple University, and Catzie Vilayphonh. Their poems are self-written and are often based on personal experiences, focussing on social and political issues relevant to the Asian American community and aiming to challenge common misconceptions of Asianness. Dr Michelle Myers is currently a mentor and Professor at The Community College of Philadelphia.

KARIZZA

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER / MODEL COACH

For over 10 years as a Fashion Photographer, KARIZZA worked with magazines, famous brands and model agencies across the United States and Europe. Coaching is her passion and as a former model, KARIZZA has a lot of useful information to share. She helped dozens of aspiring models to develop their modeling skills, gain confidence in front of the camera, get signed with a model agency, build model portfolio and prepare for the real world modeling career.

A cool and funny interview with Jacqui Stallworth & too much coffee.

Such a funny episode. I was gonna throw it away but there are some jewels of wisdom here too.