Dr. S. Ama Wray
Alex Tsado
Dr. Jackie Berry
Dr. José Cossa
Dr. Jasmine Blanks Jones
Saidah Nash Carter
Dr. Sela Adjei
Femi Omere
Dr. Reginold Royston
Ashley Baccus-Clark
Dr. Dele Olajide
Dr. Hanétha Vété-Congolo
Dr. Mamadou Kaba Traoré
Martha Shaka
Comfort Arthur
Kishau Rogers
Nana Opoku
Dr. Funmi Arewa
Essa Mohamedali
Mustapha Diyaol Haqq
Marcia Brock
Dr. Thomas F. DeFrantz
Tawanda Chabikwa, PhD.
Dr. Marketus Presswood
Nyasha Mugavazi
Azeddine Elhassouny
Grisha Coleman
Amaria Stern
Teki Akuetteh Falconer
Anatola Araba
Alexander Otuka
Dr. Elen Nas
Anatola Araba
Anatola is a filmmaker, journalist, AI advocate, visual artist, and speaker. Her film and multimedia creations have been featured in film festivals, museums, and art galleries across the globe. She's had various artworks exhibited at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Her films have been recognized by AT&T’s Film Awards, the American Black Film Festival, Social Impact Media Awards, and more. As a speaker, she had led panel discussions at events by Unity Technologies, Verizon 5G Labs, and Mozilla, to name a few. She has written articles that have been published in ELLE Magazine and Harper's Bazaar.
Anatola graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she majored in Film and Television Production with minors in Social Entrepreneurship and Interactive Media Arts. With the mantra that “creativity is the greatest tool of humanity,” Anatola’s passion is to innovate, inspire, and reimagine the world as it could be. Her project, “Afro Algorithms” is a 3D animated short film in the Afrofuturist genre that explores the topics of AI and bias. She is currently developing immersive art galleries to take place in the Metaverse.