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Allen Kwabena Frimpong is a cultural strategist, serial cooperative entrepreneur, resource mobilizer, and artist who organizes through social movements for a just transition in philanthropy towards a solidarity economy. He is a co-founder and Managing Partner of AdAstra Collective. Through this consulting cooperative, he is a co-host of the Old Money, New System community of practice that supports resource mobilization initiatives that strengthen social movement ecosystems to be relational, center community healing, and redistribution of wealth through learning and innovation. He is also a co-founder of ZEAL, a black arts studio cooperative.  

He holds an interdisciplinary practice rooted in the Black radical tradition through community organizing, cultural strategy, transformative leadership coaching, resource mobilization, and participatory planning within complex systems. Allen’s body of work as a harm reductionist has been providing capacity-building in philanthropy within the public health sector and drug policy field internationally with organizations such as Justice Funders, the Harm Reduction Coalition, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Movement NetLab, and the Start Network in the UK. He also mobilized resources for the national ride to Ferguson that led to the formation of the Black Lives Matter National Network along with other local responses to state sanctioned violence nationally.  

He is currently a board member of one of the oldest public foundations for social movements in America, Resist. Allen is also an activist advisory member of the Solidaire Network’s Movement Research & Development Fund as well as a giving circle member of ThriveAfrica. His body of work and contributions have been featured on NPR, WNYC, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Inside Philanthropy, and the New York Times.  

Allen Kwabena Frimpong received his Master’s Degree in Urban Planning and Affairs at CUNY Hunter College. He also has attended the Center for Popular Economics Summer Institute at Amherst College and has received his graduate certification at Cornell University ILR School in Labor Leadership Skills. He is currently a fellow with the Bridging Studio in New York City and a graduate candidate with the UPenn's School of Social Policy: Arts & Cultural Strategy executive program.  

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Erika Hardison is a media professional and publisher of Fabulize Magazine who’s bridging the gap between Black feminism and superheroes.

Fabulize Magazine is an online and print publication that covers entertainment, lifestyle and culture for the black nerd womanist. Hardison has been published in Huffington Post, Romper, Yahoo and covers entertainment, parenting and pop culture.

Fabulize Magazine is most known for its popular editorial My Superheroes Are Black! which highlights and promotes diversity in Pop culture through literary works, cultural heritage and media visibility.

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As a young person raised in the heart of Baltimore City, Ralikh Hayes started his journey of combating social injustice by becoming a young organizer in 2007 with the Baltimore Algebra Project as an organizer/math tutor ending his time with BAP in 2015 after serving as Co-Director and Board President. In 2015 Organizing Black was co-founded by Michaela Brown, Ralikh Hayes, and Tre Murphy these three visionaries who believe that the path to black liberation and a just, fair, equitable democracy can only exist if we begin the hard work of redefining the systems that give way to oppression and racism. As the nation sat perplexed as we heard of the death of Freddie Gray. Hayes and OB co-founders Brown & Murphy were already in action leading the Baltimore Uprising. Ralikh has a depth of experience ranging from local, state, national, and international grassroot campaigns. And has participated and been a leader in the school-to-prison-pipeline movement, the Alliance for Educational Justice, Baltimore United for Change, the Movement for Black Lives, and even more.

Tea Cheri identifies as an unapologetic and radical Black femme working within the field of mental health, with a focus on trauma particularly as it relates to Black girls and Womxn. She can be found on any given weekend doing virtual hoodrat things with her friends, rejecting respectability, anti-Blackness and yt supremacy culture. She is a proud single mother raising a fully moisturized Black son to stand up, and show up for all Black femmes in every necessary instance. Tea specializes in the health and mental health care needs of Black Womxn veterans using Narrative Therapy as well as other evidence-based modalities. She holds an associates degree in Culinary Arts from Le Cordon Bleu, a bachelor's degree in Business Management and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies from UMass Boston, and a masters degree in social work from the Boston College School of Social Work.

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janaya khan is the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Canada and has become a leading voice in the global crusade demanding social transformation, justice, and equality. Known as future within the BLM movement, khan is a Black, queer, gender-nonconforming activist, staunch Afrofuturist, boxer, and social-justice educator. Khan’s dedication and bold approach to social justice work has created opportunities to contribute to academic and frontline community dialogue engaging audiences on the global impacts of the Black Lives Matter movement. An accomplished lecturer and author, their writings have been featured in The Feminist Wire, The Root, Huffington Post Black Voices, and Al Jazeera.

janaya currently resides in Los Angeles as the International Ambassador for the Black Lives Matter Network and Interim Campaign Director at Color Of Change.

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E. Museaux is a an audio book producer at ACX and a copy editor. Em enjoys binge-watching obscure series, reading the work of her contemporaries, and using music to suppress her existential crises.‬

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Episode #68 Uppity Negress Podcast - Kiki Bryant & Cass Osei  

Kiki Bryant (she/her) is a self-described amateur social anthropologist, published children's book author and illustrator, and full-stack designer who combines her love of visual art, technology, and black women in all of her projects and services. Motivated by the incredible power that STEAM has to drive social progress, Kiki infuses empathy and social awareness into her design process, creating more ethical and inclusive digital experiences in a field dominated by straight white men. Her current focus is creating truly safe, ethical spaces on the internet for members of the black community- especially black women and black LBGT+ folks.  

Cass A. Osei (they/them) is a public health and administration scholar with expertise in and a passion for maternal health and environmental justice. They have over six years of interdisciplinary experience in population health, public policy, and administration. Their work seeks to develop and promote equitable strategies for diverse populations excluded in discussions of structural change, and public health and policy. Their research focuses on the impact of collaborative governance between communities, local level advocacy organizations, and local health departments on maternal health and mortality.  

Together, Kiki and Cass are Uppity Negress Podcast and 2/3 of the founders of The Cookout Online, the ONLY invitation only social media platform exclusively by LBGT+ Black women and exclusively FOR the Black community.  

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adrienne maree brown is the author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit.  

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