A Beautiful Resistance Live!

Jeneé Osterheldt covers identity and social justice through the lens of culture and the arts. She centers Black lives and the lives of people of color. Sometimes this means writing about Beyoncé and Black womanhood or unpacking the importance of public art and representation. Sometimes this means taking systemic racism, sexism, and oppression to task. It always means Black lives matter. She joined the Globe in 2018. A native of Alexandria, Virginia and a graduate of Norfolk State University, Osterheldt was a 2017 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, where her studies focused on the intersection of art and justice. She previously worked as a Kansas City Star culture columnist.

Makeeba McCreary is a national leader working at the intersection of public policy, philanthropy, and cultural transformation, known for challenging how power and capital move—and for building strategies that move them differently. As President and CEO of the New Commonwealth Fund, she has scaled a $50M+ philanthropic investment platform, raising more than $50 million and deploying over $20 million to 250+ organizations while advancing capacity-building, legislative engagement, and technology-enabled approaches. With nearly three decades of experience, her career spans education policy, corporate leadership at Jordan Brand (Nike), senior roles within Boston Public Schools and the City of Boston, and executive leadership at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She serves on the boards of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (Mass General Brigham), Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Nellie Mae Education Foundation, and the Boys & Girls Club of Boston, and teaches at MIT Sloan.

Jason Almeida is a Cape Verdean-American creative director, multimedia and event producer, and DJ based in Providence, RI. He has done his dj and production work as WHERE'S NASTY and other creative endeavors as 1-800-CAFE-JAY and DOING NUMBERS LLC. Getting his start at 16, producing teen parties in local nightclubs, he went on to attend the University of Rhode Island, where he began DJing, produced events such as the inaugural Multicultural Award-winning October Fest Weekend, and hosted weekly radio broadcasts for over 4 years. In late 2012, WHERE'S NASTY co-founded stay silent, a creative company that focuses on event production, content creation, design, marketing, and products. Notable projects from stay silent include owning and operating Crib a venue and nightclub in Providence, RI, producing the DAY TRILL festival and party series including BOUNCE HOUSE, EGGS OVER BRUNCH, LUV U BETTER, and HOOKAH KILLED THE DANCE FLOOR, as well as working on projects with Converse, ‘47 Brand, the City of Providence’s PVDFest, Red Bull, 40oz NYC and Hip Hop media platform, 2DopeBoyz. As a DJ, he has traveled internationally, playing sets at notable events and festivals including Art Basel Miami, D’ussePalooza (fka HennyPalooza), One Day Only Festival, 40oz Bounce, A3C Festival, SXSW, Pow!Wow! Worcester, and the Atlantic Music Expo (Cape Verde Islands). WHERE’S NASTY is also a founding member and co-executive director of Trade, a non-profit organization and cultural institution providing artists and small businesses in the New England region with free retail and gallery space along with resources for their endeavors in creative entrepreneurship. Trade’s flagship gallery space is located in the Fox Point section of Providence, has been open since November of 2014.
 

Paris Alston is a Boston-based multimedia journalist, host, storyteller, and educator. She is the owner of Pariscope Productions, through which she also provides voice and storytelling coaching and workshops. Paris is currently the host of GBH News Rooted. She was previously co-host of Morning Edition and The Wake Up podcast at GBH News. She has done live coverage of Massachusetts’ elections, the unveiling of the Embrace monument to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, the 2023 national NAACP convention, where she interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris, and the 2024 Celtics Championship Parade. She also created and does community-based reporting for the award-winning original series "A Walk Down the Block,” and created the original mental health series “Wake Up Well.” Her content has gone viral multiple times across multiple platforms. Before joining Morning Edition, Paris was a host of the NPR podcast Consider This, produced in conjunction with GBH and WBUR. She also served as the host of GBH’s digital series Keep it Social about social media trends, targeted at millennial and Gen Z audiences. Prior to that, she broke into the industry as an intern at UNC-TV in North Carolina and NBC10-Philadelphia and a producer at GBH and WBUR. She has reported on stories from Southeast Asia, Morocco, Panama and Brazil.

A North Carolina native, Paris is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied media and journalism and global studies. She earned a Social Impact MBA from Boston University, and currently teaches the basics of multimedia production at Boston College. She is a proud member of the Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and serves on the board of Tree Boston and the advisory committee for Women’s Lunch Place.

Baby Indiglo is self taught DJ that started her journey back in 2016 with LA roots and is now Boston based.  She has made a name for herself through the years from her origins on Soundcloud, playing sets at Day Trill, BLVCKTOBER Fest, and has been the resident DJ of Silk for several years now. You can keep up with her journey on her socials @babyindiglo.