Ise is the creator and lead artist of smallasaGIANT. He holds over a decade of experience in every form of educational institution – including Ivy League and public universities, public and private schools K-12, mental health facilities, after-school programming, and social work programming. 

For his latest conceptual art project, Brighter Than Blight, Lyfe transformed a blighted condemned housing project into a life-sized exhibition and artistic narrative on housing as a human right. He is Director of Lyfe Productives, a highly retained California based product development firm- and at its helm oversees a client portfolio that includes Kaiser Permanente, The National Fair Housing Alliance, University of California Regents, Comedy Central, and Deloitte.

Dr. Niaz Kasravi is a national leader on criminal justice, social justice, and racial justice, with more than seventeen years of experience leading campaigns across the county. Her work has directly impacted the reversal of the death penalty in the state of Maryland, and she is currently at the forefront of two justice campaigns addressing cases of state violence and white supremacy fuled by hate crimes in Virginia and California. 

The institute she founded and directs, the Avalan Institute, has led national research and reform projects for the Executives’ Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, the Rosenberg Foundation, and Open Society Foundations.  

Dr. Kasravi holds a Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine. 

Rudy is a doctoral researcher at the UCLA. He is the recipient of the prestigious University of California Cota Robles Fellowship, NCAA Ethnic Minority Enhancement Postgraduate Award, and Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports-Scholar Award. Most recently, Mondragón was a Fellow of the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program in Washington DC where he conducted oral history interviews for the Latinos and Baseball Project. Before his academic career, Mondragón served as an intercultural and diversity administrative specialist for ethnic multicultural centers at Iowa State University, Gonzaga University, and the University of Washington-Seattle. 

Gimel Hooper serves as the Project Developer at Lyfe Productives, which has awarded him the privilege of developing smallasaGIANT at The California Museum. With an interest and background in performance art and business, Gimel is currently developing around Lyfe Productives’ moves in education and art, including the boxing film project Miles Before The Bell.

Elena Serrano is Executive Director of Eastside Arts Alliance and a pillar in Oakland’s artistic and social justice community. Eastside Arts Alliance is a pioneering organization and institution with a 20 + year track record of tangibly and measurably providing resources for a diverse community marginalized residents in the city covering housing, arts, job opportunities, violence prevention, the arts, education, and protection over some of the most important written, spoken, painted, and recorded works of resistance history.

Director Supple is Director of the Division of Juvenile Justice at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. An innovator and true supporter of reforming the way juveniles are treated while in custody, Chuck throughout his tenure has been an advocate and conduit for alternative programming and resources that support healing young people and preventing recidivism of juvenile offenders. He’s a champion of cultivating and sustaining a professional culture within the ranks of juvenile corrections that fosters mutual respect, safety, and integrity.

Yoel Haile is a Criminal Justice Associate with the ACLU of Northern California. In this capacity, he manages a statewide network of local organizations in 11 of the largest California counties to hold elected district attorneys accountable and advocate for criminal justice reform. 

Salih is an activist, teacher, school founder, and justice advocate from Oakland, CA now living in Los Angeles. Him and Yoel Haile co-lead the most important and significant Black Academic organization in the state- ABC (African Black Coalition). 

Dr. Unique Shaw-Smith is a criminologist whose work examines the impact of incarceration on people inside of and marginalized by our current criminal justice system. As an advocate of community reentry, her approach challenges the perceptions and narratives of incarcerated people through projects that seek to disrupt dehumanization and indifference. She is based in the San Luis Obispo/Cal Poly community of California.

Berklee Donavan serves as the Social Innovation Strategist at Lyfe Productives, where she leads their new venture and innovation work. Berklee was the lead research assistant at the Avalan Institute, supporting projects focused on racial, criminal, and transportation justice. For smallasaGIANT, she researched a comprehensive historical timeline of the juvenile justice system. Berklee received her Master’s in Social Work from USC, with a concentration in Social Change and Innovation, and brings a unique approach that marries systems-focused thinking and clinical experience to address structural change. 

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