Featured Leader: Reverend Myra Brown

Pastor Spiritus Christi Church

Photographer: Jackie McGriff

Jackie McGriff is the founder and owner of Jackie Photography and Our Voices Project. She's a portrait photographer whose mission is to provide a safe space and platform for teens, women, and people of color to recognize and embrace their worth, live unapologetically, and share their stories.

Essayist: Chris Thompson

CHRIS THOMPSON is an Upstate NY born/Baltimore-bred engineer, capoeirista, activist, humorist, and writer. He pays his bills by making rail transit safer, he uses comedy to shed light on current events and history, and he uses capoeira to stay active while connecting with a rich cultural history of resistance against adversity.