FOUNDER/ EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Selly k. Thiam

United States, New York

Selly Thiam is a journalist and oral historian whose work has appeared on NPR, PBS and in Colorlines Magazine. Selly was formerly the producer for the StoryCorps Griot Initiative, which gathered over 2000 interviews from African-Americans across the United States. She is the founder of None on Record (NOR), a transnational audio-based oral history project that collects the stories of Africans that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer from the African continent and in diasporic communities.

Program Manager: Canada
Notisha Massaquoi
Canada, Toronto

Notisha Massaquoi is originally from Sierra Leone and currently resides in Canada. Her most recent publication is the edited anthology Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought. She is the winner of the 2008 IRN-Africa Audre Lorde award for outstanding writing. She is currently working on a second collection with Selly K. Thiam entitled, None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Wesley Hall
United States, Chicago

Wesley Hall is a Chicago based graphic designer and illustrator. He has designed album covers and press kits for a variety of local jazz musicians, done illustration for Blacklist online magazine and was a designer for Ten by Ten Magazine. He works with community based artists to support the creation of print materials and graphics to enhance the overall look of their work.

MUSIC DESIGN
Jill Baldwin
United States, North Carolina

Jill Baldwin is an independent producer/musician who is the founder of the Sleepy Velvet Record Label, where she produces soundtracks for independent films.

Contributing Editor
Nadia Reiman
United States, Brooklyn

Nadia graduated from Kenyon College with a double major in International Studies and Spanish Literature. She is currently producing for StoryCorps in Brooklyn, NY and before worked in the  Washington-based Spanish language radio show Epicentro, where her work included booking guests, interviewing Spanish-speaking members of Congress and editing weekly radio reports. Nadia is an avid blogger, traveler, and an occasional DJ and translator. She hails from San Jose, Costa Rica.

Program Manager: South Africa
Thokozani Ndaba

South Africa, Johannesburg

Thokozani Ndaba is a South African theatre practitioner, whose work embodies activism, education, therapy and research. She holds a BA Honours Degree in Applied Drama and Theater from the University of Witwatersrand (see www.dramaforlife.co.za). Her specialty is facilitation, HIV/AIDS, gender and youth.  Her career debut includes acting in a feature film DUMA, a number of local television dramas and musicals. She is the Project Manager for None on Record in South Africa.