Amrita  Dhaliwal

Featured Storyteller

@amrithatha

(she/her) is an international award-winning Punjabi American comedian, arts leader, educator and devising artist based in Los Angeles, whose work spans multiple mediums, from stage to TV & Film. Her work explores the core themes of humanity, like death and love, through a lens of the current social-political climate.

Kelley Lucille Williams

 Featured Storyteller 

@afrobohemiannymph

Kelley Williams is a California native who is passionate about her people, cross cultural understanding, and utilizing art to not only heal from injustice but call it out. She is an Ensemble Member of the national woman of color ensemble and creative theater organization Teatro Luna. Teatro Luna has allowed her as a poet and as an actress to use her passions to confront issues of social injustice and work towards social change. She believes the creative arts are soul communicators when hearts have hardened.

Ana Sheila Victorino

Featured Storyteller

@la_anasheila | @tamaindopodcast

Ana Sheila Victorino is a queer Mexican-born entrepreneur and podcast host. She is the co-founder of Bask and Being, a wellness and coaching company that believes human and employee well-being should be at the center of how businesses and organizations do business.

Ana Sheila is also the co-host of Tamarindo Podcast, an acclaimed top Latino/e podcast featured in publications like Oprah magazine, CNN, and Latina. The podcast covers culture, politics, and well-being in a light-hearted way that aims to connect with and inspire its audience with its relatable and meaningful content.

She has a B.A from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA where she was the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion student lead.

Ana Sheila is most passionate about people feeling free, well, and in love con life and each other. When she’s not working on that, she's in the gym getting swoll, shooting hoops, or dancing bachata badly.

Tamiyka White

Featured Storyteller

@tamiyka

Tamiyka White is an actor, director, writer, stand-up comedian and producer. Stage credits: Alabaster, Salome: 10 Poems About One Thing, When Stars Align, Doubt, The Bluest Eye, A Raisin In The Sun, Miss Witherspoon, The Crucible, Jar The Floor and Before It Hits Home. Film/TV: So F&%king Funny, The Boots, White Rabbit, The Saint  and Fifth Ward. Writing: 3 episodes of Complaints Anonymous, an anthology of original poems, 3 pilots, a play-White Walls, and a solo show, The Weight.

Directing: Pie Therapy, Meeting Matt Damon, and A Quiet Pause for the Rest of Your Life, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and Taciturn Beings. She recently made her film directorial debut with the short film, Expected/Unexpected produced by Black Girl Magic Creative Series. 

She co-founded Renaissance Performing Arts Center, a Black Theatre in Houston, Texas. In 2017, Tamiyka founded Black Girl Magic Creative Series, a multi-platform whose mission is to star in, write, produce and celebrate stories by a group of mature Black women . During the pandemic of 2020, BGMCS produced its first web series-Complaints Anonymous, where she also was Executive Producer and Showrunner.

Training: She holds Bachelor's Of Science in Theatre from the University of Houston School and a Certificate of Completion from the American Conservatory Theatre's Summer Training Congress. Ms. White is a member of both AEA and SAG-AFTRA.  https://demoreel.com/tamiyka-white.

Maya Malan-Gonzalez

Storyteller & Co-Host

Christina Igaraividez

Storyteller & Co-Host