Bobby LeFebre is an award-winning writer, performer and cultural worker fusing a non-traditional multi-hyphenated professional identity to imagine new realities, empower communities, advance arts and culture, and serve as an agent of provocation, transformation, equity and social change.  LeFebre’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, The Guardian, American Theater Magazine, NPR, and Poets.Org.  In 2019, LeFebre was named Colorado’s 8^th Poet Laureate, making him the youngest and first person of color to be appointed to the position in its 100-year history.  LeFebre was named a National Catalyst for Change Fellow in 2020 and an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow in 2021. LeFebre holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Metropolitan University of Denver and a master’s degree in Art, Literature and Culture from the University of Denver.  

Ozioma (Ozy) Aloziem, Founder and Principal Advisor of HEAL INC LLC, is an Igbo social worker situated at the intersection of multiple ways of knowing. She is a social work professor and scholar deeply committed to collective liberation, transformational education, racial justice, radical imagination, and healing. Ozy is an award-winning visionary, a well-regarded facilitator & speaker, and has served as a consultant for numerous organizations across the nation and globe. She spends her time reading, laughing, learning, and loving. You can find her wearing yellow somewhere in the world with her cat Mushu.