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Susan Bridges
Proprietor and Director
Whitespace Gallery
For 15 years, Atlanta native Susan Bridges curated pop-up reveals across the metropolis in church buildings, U-Haul services, transport containers, and an underground parking storage. In 2006, she opened Whitespace Gallery in a former carriage home behind her Victorian dwelling in Inman Park. Immediately, the gallery represents greater than 40 native and nationwide artists, who’ve proven work on the Smithsonian Establishment, the Venice Biennale, and Artwork Basel Miami Seashore.
Schooling: College of Tennessee at Chattanooga
First job: Receptionist, advert company
What I’d inform my 18-year-old self: Every thing’s going to be okay.
Few folks know: I really like to bop.
Favourite Atlanta place to go to: My backyard
Yehimi Cambrón Álvarez
Artist, Activist, and Public Speaker
Yehimi Cambrón is an artist, activist, and public speaker born in Michoacán, Mexico, and raised in Atlanta whose work focuses on celebrating the humanity, resilience, and contributions of immigrants. Cambrón’s collection Household Portrait was displayed on the Excessive Museum in 2019 and the Museum of Modern Artwork of Georgia in 2020. In June 2020 she accomplished her tallest mural to this point, We Give Every Different the World, a community-responsive piece cofunded by the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts and the Metropolis of Hapeville. In August 2020, Cambrón accomplished Monuments: Atlanta’s Immigrants, a mural on the House Depot Yard at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Cambrón’s work facilities on immigrants and predominantly displays the experiences of undocumented People.
Schooling: Agnes Scott School
Notable achievements: Atlanta Enterprise Chronicle 40 Beneath 40 (2020), Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 50 Most Influential Latinos in Georgia (2018-2020)
Why I selected this work: I’m an artist as a result of I don’t understand how else to exist. Creating artwork has allowed me to create certainty for myself all through my life.
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Monica Campana
Founder and Govt Director
Residing Partitions
A local of Peru, Monica Campana moved to the US in 1998. Because the founder and govt director of the mural program Residing Partitions, The Metropolis Speaks, she’s facilitated the creation of greater than 100 public murals all through the metro Atlanta space from a various array of nationwide and worldwide artists. Campana has additionally served as curator at WISH ATL and challenge supervisor for Philadelphia’s Open Supply, and curated an exhibition at Moscow’s Artmossphere biennale.
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Annette Cone-Skelton
President, CEO, and Founding Director
Museum of Modern Artwork of Georgia
Annette Cone-Skelton based the Museum of Modern Artwork of Georgia in 2000 with a mission to assist the state’s artists. MOCA GA is presently dwelling to greater than 1,300 items, in addition to a library and a voluminous archive. A longtime educator, curator, and editor, Cone-Skelton can be a revered artist whose work is collected within the Nationwide Museum of Girls within the Arts and the Excessive Museum of Artwork, amongst different locations. She acquired the Governor’s Award for the Arts & Humanities in 2012 and Atlanta Modern’s Nexus Award in 2019.
Schooling: Atlanta School of Artwork
Hometown: LaGrange, Georgia
Hidden expertise: Performed the French horn in highschool
Favourite Atlanta place to go to: Atlanta Botanical Backyard
Charities: Hambidge Middle for the Inventive Arts & Sciences, Thought Capital, MOCA GA
Favourite journey vacation spot: Barcelona
Shanequa Homosexual
Artist
Artist Shanequa Homosexual displays her works and procures residencies inside the US, Europe, Japan, and South Africa. She is a Do-Good Fellow recipient and an Emory College Arts and Social Justice Fellow (2020). Presently, Homosexual is a visiting professor at Spelman School and the visible artist-in-residence at Oglethorpe College. Her accomplishments embody choice for Off the Wall, a city-wide civil rights and social justice mural initiative led by the Atlanta Tremendous Bowl Host Committee (2019). Current exhibitions embody the European Cultural Centre Private Buildings-REFLECTION, 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, (2022); Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Modern (2021); Le Monde Bossale, Montreal, Canada (2021); Adorned, McColl Middle for Arts and Innovation, Charlotte (2020); and Holding House for The Aristocracy: A Memorial for Breonna Taylor, Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill North Carolina (2020).
Schooling: Savannah School of Artwork and Design, Georgia State College (MFA)
Hometown: Atlanta
Omari J. Henderson
Founder and Co-Proprietor
ZuCot Gallery
Omari J. Henderson has managed to fuse his instructional background, enterprise acumen, and love of artwork to strike a fragile steadiness between his ardour, private, {and professional} life as a associate and co-owner of ZuCot Gallery. By his management, ZuCot has change into the biggest African American artwork gallery within the Southeast, endeavoring to raise the careers of artists whereas offering a novel buyer expertise for collectors, firms, and personal consultations. A Decatur native, Henderson additionally works in Technique & Innovation for Chick-fil-A, whereas serving on the board of administrators for a number of organizations together with Kenny Leon’s True Colours Theatre, Park Delight, and the REACH Georgia Basis.
Schooling: Tuskegee College
Why I selected this work: Since my youth, artwork has at all times been an actual ardour. I used to be not expert in creating work, however actually appreciated what I noticed my father and different artists create (throughout many platforms). I’ve at all times been an innovator with an entrepreneur mindset.
Greatest recommendation acquired: You may have a accountability to construct a legacy that may propel generations to come back.
Favourite guide: Any guide by Walter Mosley
Onaje Henderson
Accomplice/Gallery Director
ZuCot Gallery
Onaje Henderson is a associate and gallery director of ZuCot Gallery in Atlanta. Beneath his management, ZuCot has superior the careers of numerous African American artists and presently stands as the biggest African American advantageous arts gallery within the Southeast. A neighborhood educator, Henderson often collaborates with artwork fans, high-end collectors, and company executives to advertise the need of proudly owning one’s tradition and has additionally suggested numerous purchasers on artwork choice. The Decatur native can be a member of the Fulton County Arts Council and sits on the boards of Hammonds Home Museum and Artwork Papers.
Schooling: Tuskegee College
Greatest recommendation acquired: Discuss much less, pay attention extra.
Hardest problem: Constructing a enterprise that has the power to adapt and pivot with the occasions or circumstances is paramount to staying viable and worthwhile.
Favourite film: Kill Invoice
Nonprofits: Hammonds Home, Artwork Papers, Youth Problem Inc.
Donovan Johnson
Director
Invoice Lowe Gallery
Donovan Johnson has a decade of expertise in world-class up to date artwork galleries, in each New York, having labored at Lisa Cooley Gallery, and in Atlanta, at Hathaway Modern and Invoice Lowe Gallery, the place he labored very intently with its founder as assistant director, directing exhibit operations and gross sales earlier than turning into the gallery director in 2021. He has expertise in artwork curation and assortment; extra notably, he has curated reveals akin to Michael David’s The Mirror Stage and Jimmy O’Neal’s An Introspective.
First job: Intern, Invoice Lowe Gallery
Hometown: Newnan
Why I selected this work: Artwork has at all times been and shall be my first true language.
Greatest recommendation acquired From Invoice Lowe: “Know who you is and who you ain’t.”
Hardest problem: The passing of my pal and mentor, Invoice Lowe.
Favourite journey vacation spot: Mum or dad’s dwelling
Nonprofit: Nsoros
Veronica Kessenich
Govt Director
Atlanta Modern
As govt director of Atlanta Modern, Veronica Kessenich led the artwork heart’s transition to every day free admission in 2015—and has seen a subsequent attendance improve of greater than 109 %. She continues to work alongside workers to create and implement distinctive packages and strategic funding initiatives to take care of free admission. Previous to turning into govt director in 2015, Kessenich was Atlanta Modern’s improvement director, closing out a $625,000 capital marketing campaign and reimagining the middle’s annual Artwork Celebration fundraiser. Kessenich can be an adjunct teacher within the artwork historical past division of Agnes Scott School.
Schooling: Saint Mary’s School, College of Saint Andrews (MPhil)
Hometown: Atlanta
Why I selected this work: I basically imagine that we want artwork in an effort to perceive our place on this planet.
Greatest recommendation acquired: What’s the worst factor they’ll say, no? Who cares. Simply ask once more.
Favourite film: Blow-Up
Hala Moddelmog
President and CEO
Woodruff Arts Middle
Hala Moddelmog is president and CEO of the Woodruff Arts Middle. She has spent practically a decade serving in volunteer management on the Arts Middle. She served on the Woodruff Arts Middle Board of Trustees from 2011–2017 and has served on the Woodruff Governing Board since 2017. She additionally served on the Alliance Theatre Board of Administrators from 2011–2020 and led the Alliance Theatre Board as co-chair from 2017–2019. All through her profession, she has served in prime govt roles and has served as a company director for 4 NYSE firms and a Carlyle Group non-public portfolio firm board. In 2014, she grew to become the primary feminine president and CEO of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Beforehand she was president of Arby’s Restaurant Group, president and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Treatment, and the primary lady to guide a global restaurant firm as president of Church’s Rooster.
Schooling: Georgia Southern College, College of Georgia (MA)
Why I selected this work: I actually love and imagine in Atlanta. This area has been excellent to me.
Gennadi Nedvigin
Inventive Director
Atlanta Ballet
In 2016, Gennadi Nedvigin grew to become the fourth inventive director within the 87-year historical past of the Atlanta Ballet. Born in Russia, Nedvigin was accepted into the celebrated Bolshoi Ballet Academy at age 10, and joined the Moscow Renaissance Ballet upon commencement. He joined the San Francisco Ballet in 1997; promoted to principal dancer three years later, Nedvigin has carried out as Albrecht in Giselle, Nutcracker Prince in The Nutcracker, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. Since becoming a member of Atlanta Ballet, Nedvigin, with choreographer Yuri Possokov, assembled a world-class design staff and created a world premiere manufacturing of The Nutcracker for Atlanta Ballet in 2018, adopted by the corporate’s debut efficiency on the John F. Kenney Middle for the Performing Arts in 2019. Beneath Nedvigin’s steering, the Firm has grown to 39 dancers and has established the Academy coaching program and Atlanta Ballet 2, a top-tier efficiency ensemble.
Schooling: Bolshoi Ballet Academy
First job: Soloist dancer at Moscow Renaissance Ballet
Notable achievements: Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (2001, 2010, and 2017), Erik Bruhn Prize (1999)
Ann-Carol Pence
Cofounder and Producing Inventive
Director
Aurora Theatre
Ann-Carol Pence is the manufacturing inventive director of Lawrenceville’s Aurora Theatre, which she cofounded greater than 20 years in the past with Anthony Rodriguez. Beneath their management, the theater grew from 120 to five,000 season subscribers; it produces 800 occasions yearly for 80,000 guests, and is the second-largest theater in Georgia by membership and finances. The corporate just lately moved into its new $35 million, 59,500-square-foot Lawrenceville Arts Middle. Pence continues her work as an advocate of radical inclusion, creating house the place folks of all backgrounds collect to have fun the humanities. She’s additionally been a pianist and/or musical director in productions nationally and in Atlanta.
Schooling: James Madison College
Hometown: Harrisonburg, Virginia
Why I selected this work: As a musician by commerce, I believed Gwinnett County deserved and will maintain an expert theater, able to producing world-class musicals in a method I had not seen produced in Atlanta.
First job: Church organist at age 12
Inspiring particular person: Oprah Winfrey
Michael Rooks
Wieland Household Curator of Modern and Fashionable Artwork
Excessive Museum of Artwork
Since becoming a member of the Excessive Museum in 2010, Michael Rooks has curated or managed dozens of exhibitions and elevated the museum’s assortment by 1 / 4, together with work by Julie Mehretu, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, and Kara Walker. He was additionally commissioner and cocurator of the U.S. pavilion on the twelfth Worldwide Structure Exhibition on the 2010 Venice Biennale. A 2015 Atlanta Modern Nexus Award winner, Rooks beforehand held curatorial positions on the Museum of Modern Artwork Chicago, Honolulu’s Modern Museum, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Schooling: College of the Artwork Institute of Chicago (MA)
Hometown: Ottawa, Illinois
First job: Paper route
Lesson discovered: The need of compromise to benefit from the pleasure of consensus-building
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Lauri Stallings
Founding Artist
glo
Because the founding father of the dance firm glo, conceptual artist and choreographer Lauri Stallings has remodeled the Atlanta dance scene, collaborating with artists together with Robert Spano, Janelle Monáe, and Large Boi. Stallings’s work has been commissioned and offered by venues together with the Middle for Civil and Human Rights, the Excessive Museum of Artwork, Artwork Basel Miami Seashore, and the Zuckerman Museum of Artwork. In 2018, she acquired the Hudgens Prize from the Hudgens Middle for Artwork & Studying. She can be a MOCA GA Fellow (2017) and Rome Prize nominee (2013). In 2019, Stallings was the primary choreographer in residence on the Excessive Museum of Artwork and shared her choreographies within the XII Florence Biennale, the place she was considered one of 400 artists representing 55 nations. In 2022 Georgia Pattern included Stallings in its checklist of 100 Most Influential Georgians.
Schooling: Level Park College
Hometown: Gainesville, Florida
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Randall Suffolk
Nancy and Holcombe T. Inexperienced Jr. Director
Excessive Museum of Artwork
Randall Suffolk grew to become the Excessive Museum’s director in November 2015. Since his arrival, he has championed a dedication to neighborhood engagement, putting specific emphasis on collaboration, inclusivity, and entry. To assist these aims, the museum has decreased admission charges, centered programmatically on the demographics of its viewers, reinstalled its complete assortment, and added quite a few necessary acquisitions.
Schooling: Connecticut School, Columbia College (MA), Bryn Mawr School (MA)
Hometown: Tallmadge, Ohio
First job: Waiter
Greatest recommendation acquired: At all times dwell inside strolling distance of the workplace.
Hobbies: Biking
Troy T. Taylor
Founding Accomplice and Proprietor
ZuCot Gallery
Troy T. Taylor is a founding associate and proprietor of ZuCot Gallery, the biggest African American-owned advantageous artwork gallery within the Southeast. Its mission is to advertise unique artistic endeavors by residing African American artists. Taylor has helped to develop a go-to-market technique that was extremely listed at attracting the rising wealth of the town’s younger African American skilled inhabitants. He has amassed a consumer checklist of over 1,000 collectors and a social media following of over 10,000 followers. He has additionally developed an academic program with Atlanta Public Colleges the place over 2,500 college students go to the gallery through the college 12 months.
Schooling: Penn State, College of Pennsylvania (MS)
Favourite interest: Boating
Favourite film: Star Wars
Favourite journey vacation spot: Singapore
Allan C. Vella
President and CEO
Fox Theatre
Allan C. Vella has labored within the facility administration discipline since 1986, managing theaters, arenas, amphitheaters, and exhibition services. His expertise spans a variety of occasions, together with NCAA tournaments, MLB and NHL video games, ballet, live shows, and presidential visits. As president and CEO of the Fox Theatre, Vella is liable for all operations and programming. The Fox averages greater than 150 performances and hosts greater than 600,000 company yearly, with occasions starting from rock live shows to Broadway, ballet, comedy, and flicks.
Schooling: College of Iowa
Hardest problem: Helping with restoration efforts for Southeast Texas after Hurricane Rita
Hidden expertise: I’m an novice rock drummer. My realization {that a} future as a profitable musician was extremely unlikely led me to my profession.
Favourite journey vacation spot: Saint George Island
Anna Walker Skillman
Proprietor
Jackson Wonderful Artwork
Anna Walker Skillman is the proprietor of Jackson Wonderful Artwork, a Buckhead gallery that emphasizes a mixture of Twentieth-century and up to date advantageous artwork images. With a level in artwork historical past, Walker Skillman started her profession on the Haines Gallery in San Francisco, shifting to Atlanta in 1993 to handle the studio of artist Todd Murphy. Becoming a member of Jackson Wonderful Artwork in 1998, she bought the gallery in 2003 from Jane Jackson, who based it in 1990. Jackson Wonderful Artwork’s purchasers embody the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, the Excessive Museum of Artwork, and the Artwork Institute of Chicago.
Schooling: College of Georgia
John Welker
Inventive and Govt Director
Terminus Fashionable Ballet Theatre
With 4 different veterans of the Atlanta Ballet, John Welker cofounded Terminus Fashionable Ballet Theatre in 2017 after an extended profession in dance. Debuting as an expert dancer at age 16, the Ohio native spent 22 years as a principal dancer for the Atlanta Ballet, the place he carried out lead roles in productions together with Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, The 4 Seasons, and Seven Sonatas. In 2010 he based the up to date dance firm Wabi Sabi, which commissioned 35 new works over seven years.
Schooling: Kennesaw State College
Why I selected this work: Dance combines athleticism, spirituality, science, and artwork into the human kind, and when mixed, dance turns into a robust communicator—there’s nothing else prefer it.
First job: Newspaper route with the Columbus Dispatch
Hidden expertise: I can hit a excessive G-flat into an F-sharp with my voice. It’s terribly horrible.
Favourite film: The Godfather: Half II
Tomer Zvulun
Basic and Inventive Director
The Atlanta Opera
Tomer Zvulun has been basic and inventive director of the Atlanta Opera since 2013, directing greater than 15 new productions together with Useless Man Strolling and The Flying Dutchman. Throughout Zvulun’s tenure the opera has tripled its fundraising and doubled its annual variety of productions; his give attention to innovation has led to a Harvard Enterprise College case research, a TED Discuss, and an Worldwide Opera Awards nomination. A celebrated director, Zvulun has staged work on the Washington Nationwide Opera, the Seattle Opera, and internationally; previous to coming to Atlanta, he spent seven seasons on the Metropolitan Opera’s directing workers.
Schooling: Open College of Tel Aviv
Hometown: Ashqelon, Israel
Why I selected this work: Opera’s mixture of music, theater, and design is essentially the most highly effective inventive fashion I used to be ever uncovered to.
First job: Labored within the Israeli opera in each entry place possible: usher, stagehand, prop operator
FILM, MUSIC, & ENTERTAINMENT
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Kenny Clean
Govt Director
Atlanta Jewish Movie Pageant
Kenny Clean is govt director of the Atlanta Jewish Movie Pageant—the biggest movie competition in Atlanta and the world’s preeminent Jewish movie fest. A communications and journalism veteran, Clean labored for Atlanta mayors Maynard Jackson and Invoice Campbell within the early Nineties, and received an Related Press award for particular protection of the 1996 Olympics as a producer at WSAV-TV in Savannah. Most just lately, Clean was an govt producer for WXIA-TV, the place he acquired an Emmy for breaking-news protection. A recipient of the IMAGE Movie Award and Atlanta Modern’s Nexus Award, Clean beforehand chaired the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund.
Schooling: New York College
Greatest recommendation acquired: 4 issues that may by no means be recovered: the stone after it’s thrown, the phrase after it’s spoken, the event after it’s missed, and the time after it’s gone.
Favourite film: Lawrence of Arabia
Favourite trip vacation spot: Hilton Head Island
Who’d play me in a biopic: Jake Johnson
Jim Farmer
Pageant Director and Govt Director
Out on Movie
Jim Farmer has served because the competition director and govt director of Out on Movie, Atlanta’s LGBTQ movie competition, since 2008. Beneath his management the competition has received ArtsATL’s Beacon Award for Neighborhood Engagement and the Middle for Civic Innovation’s Civic Influence Award, and acquired an Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences grant for its visiting-
filmmaker collection. It was additionally named an Oscar-
qualifying competition in 2020, considered one of solely six such LGBTQ+ movie festivals on this planet. MovieMaker journal listed the competition in its 50 Movie Festivals Definitely worth the Entry Charge checklist in 2022. Farmer has been an Atlanta Delight grand marshal in addition to a longtime arts author for retailers together with ArtsATL, Georgia Voice, and Challenge Q Atlanta.
Schooling: College of Georgia
Hometown: Milledgeville, Georgia
Notable achievement: Main Out on Movie’s development from a seven-day movie competition to its present incarnation as an 11-day competition and turning into one of the crucial revered LGBTQ+ movie festivals within the nation
Few folks know: I’m extremely shy.
Who’d play me in a biopic: Dan Levy
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Donald Glover
Actor, Author, Director, and Musician
Raised in Stone Mountain, Donald Glover is the creator, author, producer, and director of the FX collection Atlanta, which debuted in 2016 and has acquired quite a few Emmy and Golden Globe awards. The ultimate season of the collection aired in 2022. As an actor, he’s appeared in a number of movies together with Magic Mike XXL, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Martian, and Solo: A Star Wars Story. Glover joined the writing staff of the NBC sitcom 30 Rock whereas he was a scholar at New York College, and his musical alter ego, Infantile Gambino, has garnered seven Grammy nominations for his albums. His single “That is America” received 4 Grammys for Document of the Yr, Tune of the Yr, Greatest Rap/Sung Efficiency, and Greatest Music Video.
Schooling: New York College
Montero Lamar Hill (Lil Nas X)
Musician
Hill is a rapper, singer, songwriter, and media character whose genre-bending work has made him a global star. He first gained nationwide consideration for his 2019 nation rap single, “Outdated City Street,” which made him the most-nominated male artist on the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, the place he received Greatest Music Video and Greatest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency. The tune additionally earned two MTV Video Music Awards, together with Tune of the Yr, and the American Music Award for Favourite Rap/Hip Hop Tune. The tune, with a remix that includes Billy Ray Cyrus, grew to become the longest chart-topper in U.S. historical past. He’s the primary brazenly LGBTQ+ Black artist to win a Nation Music Affiliation award. His full-length debut album, Montero, featured Doja Cat, Elton John, Megan Thee Stallion, and Miley Cyrus.
Schooling: College of West Georgia
Hometown: Atlanta
London Holmes (London on da Monitor)
Producer
As an adolescent London joined a rap crew referred to as Dem Guyz and developed his musical expertise by enjoying piano at his native church. In 2011, he launched his first monitor, “Curtains,” with Younger Thug. Within the subsequent few years he collaborated with Waka Flocka Flame, Gucci Mane, and Wealthy Homie Quan earlier than signing with Money Cash Information. He’s change into recognized for breaking new artists and has produced hits for artists akin to 21 Savage, Summer time Walker, Saweetie, G-Eazy, and extra.
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Janelle Monáe
Musician
With albums together with The ArchAndroid, The Electrical Girl, and Soiled Pc, Janelle Monáe creates music that pushes the boundaries of rock, funk, hip-hop, R&B, and electronica. As a musical innovator, the eight-time Grammy nominee has been influenced by Prince, Stevie Marvel, and George Clinton, and is the founding father of the Atlanta document label Wondaland Arts Society. Monáe can be an actress (Moonlight, Hidden Figures, Harriet, The Glorias, and Antebellum), CoverGirl mannequin, writer (The Reminiscence Librarian: And Different Tales of Soiled Pc), and activist who’s spoken up on behalf of LGBTQ+ rights and raised cash for Flint, Michigan, following the contamination of its water.
Hometown: Kansas Metropolis, Kansas
Paula D. Murphy
Govt Vice President and Chief Working Officer
Soul Circus Inc.
Paula D. Murphy is the manager vice chairman and chief working officer and co-owner of Soul Circus Inc. and producer of the UniverSoul Circus which is likely one of the prime family-focused leisure touring reveals on this planet. Murphy has performed a key function in navigating the expansion of Soul Circus Inc. from beneath 30 reveals in a single market to over 500 performances yearly. Murphy has over three many years of confirmed enterprise expertise on six continents and in dozens of nations. Certainly one of her profession highlights contains producing Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition, at the side of the Royal Home of Mandela, which opened in London in 2019 and is presently on tour in the US. A devoted advocate for training, Murphy is chair of the board of administrators of Resurgence Corridor Constitution College in metro Atlanta.
Schooling: Georgia State College
Hometown: Fairfield, Alabama
Lesson discovered: Stability is a tough lesson: methods to be a mom, spouse, pal, chief, enterprise proprietor, and maintain it aligned.
Few folks know: I converse signal language.
Who’d play me in a biopic: Tracee Ellis Ross
Will Packer
Producer
Will Packer Productions/Will Packer Media
Will Packer has produced and executive-produced a variety of flicks which have grossed greater than $1 billion worldwide on the field workplace, together with 10 movies which have opened at primary. Packer’s most up-to-date movies embody Beast, The {Photograph}, Little, and What Males Need. Ladies Journey and Night time College had been the highest-grossing comedies for 2017 and 2018, respectively. Packer’s tv, digital, and branded-content firm, Will Packer Media, produces episodic scripted and unscripted collection together with That Woman Lay Lay on Nickelodeon; Able to Love and Put a Ring on It on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN community; and Struggle Night time and Decrease Bottoms podcasts on iHeartRadio. Packer was chosen because the producer of the 2022 Academy Awards 94th Oscars Ceremony—receiving an Emmy Award nomination as Producer, Excellent Selection Particular Stay, for the 2022 Oscars.
Notable achievements: NAACP Picture Award for Excellent Movement Image for Ladies Journey (2018), BET Award for Greatest Film for Suppose Like a Man (2013), Florida A&M College Meritorious Achievement Award (2007)
Frank Patterson
President and CEO
Trilith Studios
Frank Patterson is the president and CEO of Trilith Studios, the place the movies Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Passengers had been produced, amongst others. He led the transition of the studio from a services enterprise to an ecosystem deliberately constructed for the artistic industries. Previous to Trilith, Patterson co-founded and served because the CEO of Pulse Evolution Company, a know-how firm that produces hyper-realistic digital people for dwell and digital actuality purposes. Whereas at Pulse, Patterson produced the immersive dwell manufacturing of Michael Jackson’s “Slave to the Rhythm” on the Billboard Music Awards, which featured an unique efficiency by Pulse’s digital human likeness of the late Michael Jackson.
Schooling: Baylor College (MA)
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Antwan Patton (Large Boi)
Musician
Antwan André Patton, aka Large Boi, is a songwriter, rapper, document producer, and actor. As the enduring Southern hip-hop duo OutKast, Large Boi and collaborator André 3000 created a string of platinum-selling albums, received seven Grammys, and created the soundtrack for the 2006 movie Idlewild—which the pair additionally starred in. Large Boi’s first solo album, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, debuted at quantity three on the Billboard 200 chart upon its launch in 2010. He’s collaborated with Missy Elliott, Beyoncé, and Jay-Z, and helped launch the careers of Janelle Monáe and Killer Mike. Born in Savannah, Large Boi can be the founder and CEO of the Large Kidz Basis, which is devoted to selling management expertise, fostering publicity to the humanities, and creating social consciousness in younger folks.
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Tyler Perry
Actor, Director, and Producer
Tyler Perry Studios
One of the commercially profitable African American filmmakers in historical past, Tyler Perry created his well-known character Madea on the stage earlier than bringing her to the display screen in 2005’s Diary of a Mad Black Girl, which grossed greater than $50 million. In 2008 in Atlanta, he opened Tyler Perry Studios—the nation’s first main African American-owned movie studio. In 2019 Perry opened a brand new manufacturing facility, one of many nation’s largest, on the positioning of the previous Fort McPherson. Perry has additionally created tv reveals together with Home of Payne, served as an govt producer of the Lee Daniels movie Valuable, and starred in David Fincher’s Gone Woman, amongst different appearing tasks.
Hometown: New Orleans
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Michael Render (Killer Mike)
Musician
Run the Jewels
Michael Render is likely to be as well-known for his activism as he’s for his music: Raised within the Adamsville–
Collier Heights neighborhood, the Grammy-winning rapper served on Keisha Lance Bottoms’s mayoral transition staff and was a outstanding supporter of Bernie Sanders. Render’s advocacy on behalf of the #BankBlack motion helped transfer an estimated $60 million to Black-owned banking establishments, and he was appointed to the board of the Excessive Museum of Artwork. In 2020, he partnered with Bounce TV founder Ryan Glover and former Atlanta Mayor and civil rights activist Andrew Younger to create Greenwood Financial institution, a Black-owned on-line financial institution that caters to economically underserved Black and Latino communities throughout the US. Render performs as Killer Mike within the hip-hop duo Run the Jewels. The duo is working with Nike SB on a sneaker collaboration that may reportedly be launched this 12 months. Render additionally launched a tv discuss present, Love & Respect with Killer Mike, on PBS and Revolt TV.
Greatest recommendation acquired: Alice Mary Johnson, an govt of the Atlanta Space Fee on Youngsters and Youth, taught me how radical Martin Luther King Jr. was.
Alyssa Michelle Stephens (Latto)
Rapper
Latto received the primary season of the fact tv collection, The Rap Recreation, in 2016, when she was going by Miss Mulatto. She notoriously didn’t signal with Jermaine Dupri, breaking by as an impartial artist along with her 2019 single, “Bitch From Da Souf.” She launched her debut album, Queen of Da Souf, by RCA in 2020. That very same 12 months, she was nominated for Greatest New Hip Hop Artist on the BET Hip Hop Awards. Presently, she is nominated for Greatest New Artist and Greatest Melodic Rap Efficiency within the 2023 Grammy Awards, which shall be introduced in February.
Nonprofit: Win Some Give Some Basis
Michael Williams, II (Mike WILL Made-It)
Producer
Michael Williams grew up Marietta surrounded by music. His mom was a recording artist, his father DJed in golf equipment, and considered one of his sisters was a drum main. As a highschool scholar, he began supplying tracks for Gucci Mane. He attended Georgia State however quickly had his first hit with Meek Mill and Rick Ross. The a number of Grammy winner’s many hits embody “No Lie” by 2 Chainz, “Bandz a Make Her Dance” by Juicy J, “Pour It Up” by Rihanna, “Physique Celebration” by Ciara, “We Can’t Cease” by Miley Cyrus, “Formation” by Beyoncé, and “Humble” by Kendrick Lamar.
Kavi Vu
Digital Storyteller
Kavi Vu is a Vietnamese American storyteller and neighborhood organizer who was raised in South Georgia. As a daughter of refugees, she strives to inform tales that foster extra empathetic and inclusive communities. Vu co-founded Wake Up Atlanta, an online collection designed to extend Asian American Pacific Islander civic engagement in Georgia and co-created the ABC’s of AAPIs Coloring E book and Atlanta BeltLine exhibit. She was a 2019 Civic Innovation Fellow for the Middle for Civic Innovation. And, additionally in 2019, for her digital organizing, Vu acquired the Rising Star Award from Asian People Advancing Justice-Atlanta. Vu is dedicated to being part of the motion that brings extra Asian People to screens, to the stage, and her favourite—to the polls.
Schooling: College of Georgia
Hometown: Americus
Favourite tune about Atlanta: “ATL Hoe” by Child D
Greatest recommendation acquired: It doesn’t must be eternally.
SPORTS
Carlos Bocanegra
Vice President and Technical Director
Atlanta United
In 2015, Carlos Bocanegra joined Atlanta United as vice chairman and technical director following a 15-year skilled profession, which included stops within the MLS, English Premier League, Spain, France, and Scotland. In school, he performed at UCLA, the place he was a nationwide champion. Bocanegra was twice a FIFA World Cup participant, captaining the US in 2010 in South Africa. As an govt, he has received 4 trophies with Atlanta United and oversees the day-to-day soccer operations of the membership, together with the scouting division, the USL staff, and the Academy. In 2021, he was inducted into the Nationwide Soccer Corridor of Fame.
Schooling: College of California, Los Angeles
First job: Pizza Royal
Greatest recommendation acquired: Wherever you progress, the climate won’t ever be as good as it’s in Southern California.
Charities: Bert’s Large Journey, Soccer within the Streets
Bucket checklist: Aspen for New Yr’s
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Stephen Cannon
CEO
AMB Group
In 2016, Stephen Cannon was named CEO of AMB Group, main the for-profit arm of House Depot cofounder Arthur M. Clean’s household of companies, together with the Atlanta Falcons, the Atlanta United, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and the PGA Tour Superstore. Beforehand Cannon served as president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA, which generated document gross sales beneath his management, with annual revenues exceeding $20 billion. Cannon additionally oversaw the relocation of MBUSA’s headquarters from New Jersey to metro Atlanta. An Military veteran who served as a primary lieutenant in West Germany through the fall of the Iron Curtain, Cannon speaks fluent German and graduated with tutorial honors from West Level.
Schooling: United States Army Academy
Hometown: Paterson, New Jersey
First job: In highschool, my brother and I owned a house-painting enterprise that helped pay for school.
Greatest recommendation acquired: Spend time exterior your consolation zone. You’ll be taught extra about who you’re, what you’re able to, and what extra it’s important to be taught.
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Dan Corso
President
Atlanta Sports activities Council
Dan Corso is president of the Atlanta Sports activities Council, the arm of the Metro Atlanta Chamber that serves as a recruiter for main regional, nationwide, and worldwide sporting occasions. The ASC was instrumental within the choice of Atlanta as the positioning for the 2018 School Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship, Tremendous Bowl LIII in 2019, and the 2020 NCAA Males’s Last 4 (finally canceled attributable to Covid-19). Atlanta would be the first metropolis to host the School Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship once more in 2025, and in 2026, the FIFA World Cup shall be held within the metropolis. Corso can be president of the Atlanta Soccer Host Committee, which helped plan the CFP Nationwide Championship. He serves on the boards of the Atlanta Conference & Guests Bureau and School Soccer Corridor of Fame. Previous to becoming a member of the ASC in 1999, Corso was vice chair of the competition division for the 1998 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.
Schooling: Florida State College
Steve Koonin
CEO
Atlanta Hawks
As CEO since 2014, Steve Koonin oversees all enterprise, monetary, and strategic operations of the Atlanta Hawks Basketball Membership and State Farm Area and represents the house owners as the pinnacle of the group. Beneath Koonin’s management, State Farm grew to become the brand new naming-rights associate for the staff’s venue; following a $192.5 million renovation, the rechristened State Farm Area was named Greatest New Live performance Venue by Pollstar in 2020, and the Hawks ranked first within the NBA for General Recreation Expertise. The staff additionally constructed a state-of-the-art follow and coaching facility on the Emory Sports activities Medication Complicated in Brookhaven. An Atlanta native and a veteran of the leisure and advertising and marketing industries, Koonin beforehand served as president of Turner Leisure Networks.
Schooling: College of Georgia
Notable achievement: Atlanta Sports activities Council Lifetime Achievement Award (2020)
Board memberships: Chairman of the Board for the Georgia Aquarium, WWE, and the Atlanta Police Basis. He’s additionally on the manager committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber.
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Terry McGuirk
Chairman
Atlanta Braves
As chairman of the 2021 World Sequence Champions Atlanta Braves since 2001, and the staff’s CEO till 2018, Terry McGuirk oversees all features of the MLB franchise. Main adjustments throughout McGuirk’s tenure on the helm have included the staff’s 2007 sale to Liberty Media and the development of what’s now Truist Park, the $672 million new dwelling the Braves moved into in 2017. McGuirk started his profession in 1972 as an intern at Ted Turner’s just lately acquired tv station in Atlanta, rising by the ranks to finally change into chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System.
Schooling: Middlebury School
Wealthy McKay
President and CEO
Atlanta Falcons
Wealthy McKay grew to become president and CEO of the Atlanta Falcons in 2011, having first been employed by proprietor and chairman Arthur M. Clean in 2004 to function the staff’s basic supervisor. Throughout McKay’s tenure, the Falcons have made it to the playoffs seven occasions, attended three NFC Championship Video games, and performed in Tremendous Bowl LI. Along with his Falcons duties, McKay performed a central function within the improvement, opening, and operation of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. McKay beforehand spent 10 years as basic supervisor of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Schooling: Princeton College, Stetson College School of Legislation (JD)
Notable Achievement: Atlanta Enterprise Chronicle Most Admired CEOs (2022)
Renee Montgomery
Co-owner and Vice President
Atlanta Dream
Renee Montgomery is an element proprietor and vice chairman of the WNBA Atlanta Dream. Montgomery has received three Ladies State Basketball Championships and graduated from the College of Connecticut as a two-time All-American in 2009. She was drafted fourth within the WNBA and received two WNBA championships whereas additionally being named an All-Star and Sixth Girl of the Yr in her 11-year skilled profession. She retired in 2021 after sitting out the 2020 season to give attention to social reform and justice. That very same 12 months, she grew to become co-owner and vice chairman of the Atlanta Dream, making her the primary WNBA participant to change into an proprietor and govt of an WNBA staff. Montgomery additionally serves as a sports activities analyst and a star host to quite a few media retailers and host of her weekly podcast Montgomery & Firm.
Schooling: College of Connecticut
First job: My first “actual job” was being a broadcaster for NBA TV.
Greatest recommendation acquired: Management your controllables.
Hardest problem: Opting out of the 2020 WNBA season
Favourite movoie: Love Truly
Amy Phuong
Vice President, Authorities Relations
Atlanta Hawks and State Farm Area
Amy Phuong is vice chairman of presidency relations for the Atlanta Hawks and State Farm Area—a place that signifies an enlargement of the Hawks’ efforts to unite the broader Atlanta neighborhood by basketball whereas deepening the group’s relationships with native and state leaders. Previous to becoming a member of the Hawks in 2019, Phuong spent practically a decade in public service. As parks and recreation commissioner, she oversaw a few of Atlanta’s most formidable park tasks, together with Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry, the Grant Park Gateway, and the biggest strategic enlargement to this point of Piedmont Park. An Atlanta native, Phuong was additionally the town’s first chief service officer.
Schooling: Georgia Tech (MBA)
Notable achievements: Atlanta Enterprise Chronicle 40 Beneath 40 (2017), Georgia Asian Instances 25 Most Influential Asian People in Georgia (2015)
First job: Server at Baskin-Robbins
Favourite journey locations: Patagonia, South Africa
Favourite Atlanta locations to go to: Grant Park, Oakland Cemetery
Derek Schiller
President and CEO
Atlanta Braves
As president and CEO of the Atlanta Braves, Derek Schiller manages all enterprise features of the entrance workplace and units the strategic imaginative and prescient for the Braves enterprise. Schiller joined the Braves in 2003 as senior vice chairman of gross sales and advertising and marketing and have become govt vice chairman of gross sales and advertising and marketing in 2007. As a part of the Braves’ govt management staff, he was instrumental in securing plans for what’s now Truist Park and the Battery Atlanta and performed a pivotal function within the design and execution phases of the challenge.
Schooling: Vanderbilt College
Hometown: Colorado Springs, Colorado
First job: Promoting ice cream sandwiches—Chipwiches, to be particular. I feel I ate greater than I bought!
Favourite motion pictures: Something with Clint Eastwood, together with the outdated spaghetti westerns
Charities: Jack & Jill Late Stage Most cancers Basis
Bucket checklist: Heli-skiing in Canada or Alaska
Who’d play me in a biopic: Clint Eastwood (the model from Excessive Plains Drifter)
Travis Schlenk
President of Basketball Operations
Atlanta Hawks
A veteran of the NBA for greater than 20 years, Travis Schlenk joined the Atlanta Hawks in Could 2017 after 13 seasons with the Golden State Warriors, together with the ultimate six as assistant basic supervisor. Schlenk employed Lloyd Pierce as head coach in 2018, and beneath his steering the staff has acquired Trae Younger, John Collins, Kevin Huerter, De’Andre Hunter, and Cam Reddish, including veteran heart Clint Capela on the 2020 NBA commerce deadline. Schlenk oversees operations because the Hawks proceed to construct on their targets of including younger expertise and making ready for the longer term by way of wage cap and roster flexibility.
Schooling: Bethel School, Wichita State College (EdM)
Hometown: Selden, Kansas
First job: Engaged on my grandfather’s farm in western Kansas
Favourite TV present: Billions
Kirby Good
Head Coach
Georgia Bulldogs
In 2015, Kirby Good was appointed head soccer coach on the College of Georgia, his alma mater. At press time, he had claimed 5 SEC Japanese Division championships, two SEC titles, and 5 bowl victories, and had led the Bulldogs to 2 appearances in nationwide championship video games—profitable the 2021 nationwide title by defeating Alabama. Good’s 2019 Bulldogs grew to become the primary staff in Bulldogs historical past to win 11 or extra video games in three straight seasons. Beforehand, Good was a defensive coordinator on the College of Alabama, and has coached at Valdosta State College, Florida State College, and Louisiana State College. The son of a highschool soccer coach, Good performed defensive again throughout his school profession.
Schooling: College of Georgia, Florida State College (MS)
Alex City
Govt Director
Tour Championship
PGA Tour
Alex City grew to become the manager director of the PGA’s Tour Championship in 2022. Previously, he had served as basic supervisor and govt director of the Sentry Event of Champions in Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii, and was instrumental in Sentry Insurance coverage’s onboarding because the occasion’s new title sponsor and subsequent extension. A Tour worker since 2013, City beforehand held roles within the Company Partnerships and Communications departments.
Hometown: Powell, Ohio (exterior Columbus)
Schooling: Clemson College, College of Georgia (MA)
Greatest recommendation: My dad had a really profitable profession in enterprise, however I’ll at all times bear in mind him telling me that pursuing passions in life is extra necessary than chasing a paycheck. When you’ve got ardour for what you do, the remaining will fall into line.
Few folks know: I’ve been in a number of bands in my life and may play myriad devices.
Nonrprofits: The First Tee of Metro Atlanta, East Lake Basis, Function Constructed Communities, and extra
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Dominique Wilkins
Vice President of Basketball and Particular Adviser to the CEO
Atlanta Hawks
Represented by an 18,500-pound bronze statue on the entrance to State Farm Area, Dominique Wilkins is considered one of Atlanta basketball’s most celebrated gamers. The 14th all-time main scorer in league historical past, Wilkins performed 12 seasons with the Atlanta Hawks, main the staff to the playoffs in eight. Immediately he serves as Hawks VP of basketball and particular advisor to the CEO, and gives staff evaluation throughout broadcasts on Bally Sports activities Southeast.
Schooling: College of Georgia
Hometown: Washington, North Carolina
Notable achievements: Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame, Georgia Sports activities Corridor of Fame, Atlanta Sports activities Corridor of Fame, Nationwide Collegiate Basketball Corridor of Fame, Boys & Ladies Golf equipment of America Alumni Corridor of Fame
Inspiring particular person: My mother
Hardest problem: Rising up in Baltimore with a single mother or father
Bucket checklist: Egypt
Who’d play me in a biopic: Denzel Washington
Rayford Trae Younger
Guard
Atlanta Hawks
Acquired by the Atlanta Hawks from the Dallas Mavericks, Trae Younger formally signed a contract with the Hawks in 2018. Younger was a unanimous NBA All-Rookie First Staff choice as he averaged 19.1 factors, 8.1 assists, and three.7 rebounds in 30.9 minutes in 81 contests through the 2018-2019 season. Within the 2020-2021 season, Younger led the Hawks to the Japanese Convention Finals, the staff’s first look since 2015. By November 2022, Younger’s 28 video games of at the least 40 factors and 5 assists had been essentially the most such video games in franchise historical past, whereas his 28 video games of 40 plus factors are third-most in franchise historical past, trailing solely Corridor of Famers Dominique Wilkins and Bob Pettit. The 2-time NBA All-Star debuted his second signature basketball shoe, the Adidas Trae Younger 2, in 2022.
Most inspiring particular person: My grandfather who handed away once I was 10.
LEGENDS
Vincent Anthony
Now retired, Anthony based the Middle for Puppetry Arts in 1978. Beneath his management, the middle acquired a document 12 Citations of Excellence from UNIMA-USA, the U.S. division of Union Internationale de la Marionnette, the worldwide group for the artwork of puppetry. A local of Sarasota, Florida, Anthony has additionally acquired a private Quotation of Excellence from UNIMA-USA—puppetry’s most prestigious award.
Christopher Bridges (Ludacris)
One of many first Soiled South rappers to realize mainstream success, Ludacris rose to the quantity 4 slot on the U.S. Billboard 200 together with his 2000 major-label debut, Again for the First Time. He based the Atlanta document label Disturbing tha Peace and has received Display screen Actors Guild, MTV Video Music, and Grammy awards.
Zac Brown
Brown is the founder, entrance man, and lead vocalist for his eponymous, multiplatinum, Grammy Award–profitable Southern rock group. He’s a songwriter, producer, document label head, businessman, and philanthropist.
Pearl Cleage
Cleage is the writer of 15 performs, eight novels, two books of poetry, two books of essays, a guide of brief tales, and a memoir. She labored in politics as speechwriter/press secretary to Mayor Maynard Jackson and as a guide in lots of native political races. She is presently the Mellon Playwright in Residence on the Alliance Theatre.
Peter Conlon
As president of Stay Nation Atlanta, Conlon books the town’s prime venues, from Chastain Park to State Farm Area. He cofounded Music Midtown in 1994 with the late Alex Cooley, whom he befriended within the Seventies whereas arranging live shows for Jimmy Carter’s presidential marketing campaign. The longtime collaborators grew to become the town’s strongest music promoters.
Bobby Cox
A former professional infielder, Cox led main league groups for 3 many years, racking up greater than 2,500 victories. Within the Nineties, he led the Atlanta Braves to 14 straight division championships, 5 Nationwide League pennants, and a 1995 World Sequence title.
Lisa M. Cremin
Throughout 1 / 4 century with the Neighborhood Basis for Higher Atlanta, Cremin oversaw an modern suite of packages serving native arts organizations—together with the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, which she helped discovered to assist small to midsized teams.
Radric Davis (Gucci Mane)
Born Radric Davis in Bessemer, Alabama, the rapper often known as Gucci Mane moved to East Atlanta on the age of 9 and is taken into account one of many architects, together with T.I. and Jeezy, of lure music.
Jermaine Dupri
A famend producer, singer, and songwriter, Jermaine Dupri based So So Def Recordings in 1993 as a three way partnership with Columbia Information—and helped put Atlanta on the nationwide hip-hop map. Dupri has produced and written hits for Kris Kross, Monica, Usher, Jay-Z, Janet Jackson, and Mariah Carey, and launched a number of albums of his personal. In 2018 he joined the Songwriters Corridor of Fame because the youngest songwriter ever inducted, at age 45—and solely the second hip-hop artist following Jay-Z.
Fay Gold
Gold pioneered up to date artwork in Atlanta. For greater than 30 years, she has staged groundbreaking exhibitions of artists akin to Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz, Keith Haring, Irving Penn, Andres Serrano, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Indigo Ladies
Performing collectively since highschool, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers launched a self-titled document for Epic in 1989 that grew to become the primary of six consecutive gold- and/or platinum-certified albums. One of the profitable folks duos in historical past, they’ve loved a 35-year profession that started in golf equipment round their native Atlanta.
Tom Key
Now retired from his longtime function as inventive director of the Theatrical Outfit, Key has appeared on many nationwide levels in addition to these of the Alliance Theatre, Kenny Leon’s True Colours Theatre, and the Atlanta Opera. He has acquired the Governor’s Award within the Humanities and the Georgia Arts and Leisure Legacy Award.
Chuck Leavell
A conservationist, sustainable-development advocate, tech entrepreneur, and the Rolling Stones’ musical director for greater than 20 years, Leavell cofounded the Mom Nature Community, which he bought in 2020. He’s additionally a Grammy-winning keyboardist who has recorded with Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and the Allman Brothers Band.
Kevin Lee
Kevin Lee, aka Coach Ok, is the cofounder and chief working officer of High quality Management Music and the supervisor of a few of Atlanta’s largest hip-hop stars. His roster of acts has included Migos, Lil Yachty, Jeezy, and Gucci Mane. Along with his High quality Management associate, CEO Pierre “Pee” Thomas, Coach Ok additionally runs the music and leisure administration agency Stable Basis.
Kenny Leon
Leon is the previous inventive director of Atlanta’s True Colours Theatre Firm, which he cofounded with Jane Bishop in 2002 following 11 years as inventive director of the Alliance Theatre. Leon is a Tony Award–profitable movie and theater director whose Broadway credit embody Fences, A Raisin within the Solar starring Denzel Washington, and The Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett.
Billy Payne
A lawyer, actual property developer, and former UGA soccer star, Payne is finest often known as CEO of the Atlanta Committee for the 1996 Olympic Video games after which president and CEO of the video games themselves. He chaired Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership for greater than 10 years, throughout which girls had been first admitted to membership.
Camille Russell Love
A former artwork gallery proprietor, Love has served as govt director of Atlanta’s Workplace of Cultural Affairs since Invoice Campbell was mayor. She has overseen packages akin to Chastain Arts Middle, the town’s Public Artwork Program (together with Elevate), and the Atlanta Jazz Pageant.
John Schuerholz
A Baltimore native, Schuerholz started his baseball profession with the Orioles, serving to construct a Kansas Metropolis Royals staff that received the World Sequence in 1985. In 1991, he teamed up with Bobby Cox to assist the Braves go from “worst to first” and win the Nationwide League pennant. Then from 1991 to 2005, the Braves completed first of their division in each accomplished season. He was the primary basic supervisor whose groups captured World Sequence titles in each the American and Nationwide Leagues.
Mary Stanley
Stanley based her eponymous studio in 2004, and has lengthy been a vibrant presence on the Atlanta artwork scene—as a personal artwork guide, artist consultant, and curator who’s organized reveals on the Atlanta Authorized Assist Society, Hathaway Modern Gallery, and Museum of Modern Artwork of Georgia.
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