Our Team

ANIMATOR
ˈAN-ME-TƏ
NOUN

  • one who brings conversations to life
  • one who gives inspiration, encouragement, or renewed vigor to unlikely partners in dialogue

We are a team of educators, activists, healers, artists, connectors, and neighbors committed to seeing the invisible, hearing the voiceless, and creating spaces for social change.  As animators, we vitalize conversations that move unlikely community partners from fear and apathy to prophetic service.  

Salmoon Bashir

-Neighbor -

Chief of Staff

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Eunil David Cho, Ph.D.

-healer-

Animator

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Darren Ellison

-Artist-

Animator

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Gregory C. Ellison II, Ph.D.

-Artist-

Founder & Executive Director

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Theodore “Ted” Florence

-Activist-

CFO and COO

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Rev. Kyndra Frazier

-healer-

Animator

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Rev. Alisha Gordon

-Activist-

Animator

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Dr. Will Gravely

-ARTIST-

Animator

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Rev. Angela Mao Johnson

-healer-

Animator

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Rev. E. Michelle Ledder, 

-Activist-

Animator

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Rev. Dustin Mailman

-Artist-

Animator

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Dernard D. Newell, J.D.

-EDUCATOR-

Animator

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Charles Peterson

-Activist-

Animator

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Julian Reid

-Artist-

Animator

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Kennietha Jones

-NEIGHBOR-

Animator

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Tavares Stephens

-neighbor-

Animator

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Daphne M. Walker, J.D.

-Educator-

Animator

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Jonathan Wilkins

-Educator-

Animator

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Floyd Wood II

-neighbor-

Animator

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Board of Directors

  • Kenya K. Hansford Davis, Esq.
  • Antoinette Ellison, Esq
  • Gregory C. Ellison II, Ph.D.
  • Milton H. Jones, Jr.
  • Nekia Hackworth Jones, Esq.
  • John Majors
  • Luther E. Smith, Jr., Ph.D.

MEET OUR TEAM OF ADVISORS

  • Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, II, Congressional Black Caucus, Past President
  • Darren Ellison, 2 Piece Graphics & Design, Preferred Designer
  • Delvecchio Finley, MPP, Alameda Health System, CEO
  • Elaine Justice, Emory University Media Relations, Associate Director
  • Stephen Lewis, Forum for Theological Exploration, President
  • Rev. Aisha Brooks-Lytle, Greater Atlanta Presbytery of the PCUSA, Executive Presbyter
  • Barbara Brown Taylor, Butman Professor Emeritus of Religion, Piedmont College
  • Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Educator, Freedom Rider and Civil Rights Activist
  • Carlton Mackey, Emory University's Ethics & the Arts Program, Director
  • Parker J. Palmer, Internationally-Acclaimed Writer and Educator
  • DeWayne Rogers, Rolling Out Magazine, Creative Director and Fashion Photographer
  • Rev. Toby Sanders, M.Div., Trenton Board of Education, Past President
  • Matthew Wesley Williams, Forum for Theological Exploration, VP of Strategic Initiatives
  • Torry Winn, Esq., M.Div., Race to Equity, Strategic Partnerships and Engagement