Michelle Antoinette Nelson aka LOVE the poet is an artist, innovator, photographer, and Founder of Brown and Healthy, a global health and wellness initiative for people of color. She has appeared on CNN Live, CBS WJZ-TV, and Fox 45 television as a multifaceted career creative who has dedicated over a decade to her life’s work to innovating for social justice, authoring books, curating live entertainment events, and writing for publications such as Baltimore Magazine and Red Bulletin. She has moderated narrative changing and thought-provoking panels for Labs at Light City and Afropunk and has been featured in Forbes Magazine for her work. Michelle is also the Founder of BE FREE Fridays, the longest running monthly open mic in Baltimore, and a co-curator and host of The Red Bull Amaphiko US Festival.

To Chris, music is a lifestyle that requires dedication and love. Music is a positive force in his life. It inspires his work curating lineups for festivals and nightclubs, his original music productions, and his work DJing festivals, parties and nightclub events. Chris has been a resident DJ at 18th St Lounge in DC (birthplace of Thievery Corporation) for more than ten years. As the DJ Culture curator for the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Chris brought cutting edge music lineups by celebrated artists like Diplo, Questlove, Santogold, K Swift, Peanut Butter Wolf, Cut Chemist, Biz Markie, Wiz Khalifa, The Clipse, Nickodemus, Stretch Armstrong, Karizma, and DJ Spinna to Baltimore’s Artscape and Light City festivals. Chris worked as a record buyer for Music Liberated, booked international DJ sets for Red Maple, set up global tours, remix and licensing deals for Unruly Records and helped launch the historic My Crew Be Unruly events.