Matice Moore 
Project Director

Matice Moore is a Black, queer, non-binary artist and facilitator from Arizona. With an emphasis on leadership development, group process, and healing through creative practice, Matice has worked for over 20 years with youth and adults to address issues related to institutional equity and social justice in the non-profit and higher education sectors. As an artist, Matice's work explores themes of Blackness, grief, spirituality, and social change, and they’ve collaborated with organizers to make movement art through partnerships with Forward Together, Culture Strike, and the Ella Baker Center. Matice has held a number of roles within the non-profit and higher education sectors, but at the heart of their work is a deep love for creating intentional spaces for connection, healing, and sharing practices oriented toward our collective liberation. Matice holds a Master of Arts degree with an emphasis in community development and leadership from Prescott College, a certificate in spirituality and social change from the Pacific School of Religion, and a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Arizona.

Tiana Moon
Co-Director

 Tiana Moon (they/them) lives on Chumash land in the central coast of California. They are a mixed race Chicano who is queer, polyamorous, trans, nonbinary, and disabled. They are an educator and facilitator that enjoys creating personal, approachable, and reflective learning spaces. Tiana is committed to creating nurturing spaces for queer and trans people of color so that we may hold ourselves and each other with more care. They also enjoy walking adventures with their dogs, cooking for the people they love, board games, visiting the ocean, supporting art, daydreaming with music, and laying down.

Tere Fowler-Chapman
Financial Wellness Coordinator

Teré Fowler Chapman is a black trans activist, writer, educator in Tucson—by way of Sonoran desert | by way of boot’s bayou. This poet was the Words on the Avenue founder and the first African American executive director of the Tucson Poetry Festival. He is a National Arts Strategies’ Creative Community Fellow, and a “Bettering American Poetry 2016” nominee. He has over 10+ years supporting local organizations, local artists in reaching their fullest potential, while sustaining his own creative practice. You can find Teré or their work forthcoming or published in many places, including Huffington Post, University of Arizona’s VOCA, TEDxTucson, Tucson Weekly, Arizona Public Media’s PBS & NPR & more. Website: maroonwork.com | Photo Credit: Zach Oren.

Marshall Green

Marshall Green (he/they) is a shape-shifting Black Queer Feminist nerd; an Afro-Future, freedom-dreaming, rhyme-slinging dragon slayer in search of a new world; a scholar, poet, facilitator, filmmaker; and an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality studies at Williams College. Green explores questions of Black sexual and gender agency, health, creativity, and resilience in the context of state and social violence. An interdisciplinary scholar, Green employs Black feminist theory, performance studies, and trans studies to investigate forms of self-representation and communal methods of political mobilization by Black queer folk. He is a proud founding member of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100).