Our Team.
Core Staff:
Alex Herrera
Director of Programs + Partnerships
Aurora Toshiko KinG
Executive Director
Crislin Christian-Frazier
Operations + Communications Manager
Teaching Artists + Program Staff:
Our Program Team collaborates with staff to design holistic media arts programming for young artists to collaborate with their peers, develop technical skills in digital storytelling and create authentic media narratives.
Jason Roman
Emerging Teaching Artist
Rafaella Villamar
Emerging Teaching Artist
Raysam Donkoh Halm
Teaching Artist
Stevia Ndoe
Teaching Artist
Taylor Wren
Emerging Teaching Artist
Tye Moores
Teaching Artist
2026 Podcast Lab:
We launched our inaugural Podcast Lab in partnership with Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award-winning investigative journalist Yohance Lacour ("You Didn’t See Nothin") to produce a new podcast series “How Are The Children?” set to release later this year.
2026 creative pathways Production Cohort:
Every year, young artists ages 18-25 join our annual cohort program, comprised of the fall Screenwriting Cohort, winter Pre-Production Workshops, spring Production Cohort, and summer Post-Production Cohort. Throughout this program, artists collaborate to write, produce, and edit an original short film that enters the film festival circuit for the following year. Featured below are the core members of the 2026 Production Cohort.
Abril Soler Rocha
1st Assistant Director
Anthony Strader
Sound Mixer
Antrita Manduva
Producer
Eliaz Campoverde
Gaffer
Faith Wood
1st Assistant Camera
Jeffery Holmes
Cinematographer
Kara Zamora
Script Supervisor
Kareema Godhrawala
Props + Set Design
Lina Patton
Director
Marcil Maddox
Grip
Quonyel Shelton
Hair + Makeup / Marketing
