Co-Founder & Board Member
Color Farm Impact
and Color Farm Media
Co-Founder & Board Member
Board Member
Color Farm Impact
Board Member
Color Farm Impact
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SAG and Independent Spirit award nominated Erika Alexander is beloved for her iconic acting roles as Maxine Shaw (“Living Single”), Detective Latoya (GET OUT), and Cousin Pam (“The Cosby Show”). Erika wears many hats, as not only an actress, but also a trailblazing activist, entrepreneur, creator, producer, and director -- an all-around boss.
Erika most recently can be seen in AMERICAN FICTION, starring alongside Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, and Tracee Ellis Ross. The film won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. She also stars in Apple TV's hit sci-fi series, Invasion; executive produced by Simon Kinberg (Xmen, Deadpool, Star Wars); and the upcoming feature, Is God Is, by writer/director Aleshea Harris, for Amazon/MGM Orion.
As a creator and co-founder of Color Farm Media, Erika recognizes that stories, when socially conscious and carefully constructed, have the capacity to create impact and meaningful change. She recently co-founded Color Farm Impact, a non-profit organization focused on worldbuilding. "At Color Farm Impact, we use storytelling to create data and educational programs to future proof a new generation,” says Erika.
Erika’s company, Color Farm Media, self-described as the “Motown of film, TV, and tech,” develops and produces scripted and unscripted content for film, television, streaming, and podcast platforms. Color Farm has produced award-winning projects such as JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, FINDING TAMIKA, and THE BIG PAYBACK, which she also co-directed. Color Farm Media is currently producing the documentary: Between Starshine And Clay The Diahann Carroll Story and the live-action film, XERO: based on the DC comic book by Christopher Priest.
Erika is a sought-after speaker who delivers keynotes on topics including leadership, communications & performance, and diversity & inclusion. She served as Hillary Clinton’s most traveled surrogate during her 2008 and 2016 election campaigns.
As co-founder of Color Farm Media, Ben has produced award-winning projects including the documentary film “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” which was nominated for 3 Emmy Awards and won the NAACP Image Award for Best Documentary Film, as well as “The Big Payback,” a critically acclaimed documentary film focused on reparations for Black Americans. Ben also produced “Finding Tamika,” an Audible Original Series that won the prestigious duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism as well as a Webby Award and Audible’s True Crime Audio Series of the Year.
Prior to launching Color Farm, Ben was integral in scaling the Facebook-incubated tech startup, Wildfire, from 6 to over 400 employees and an acquisition by Google. He also co-founded Curio, an innovative tech startup that resided at the intersection of Web3 and entertainment. At Curio, Ben sourced, negotiated, and secured a groundbreaking Web3 enterprise-level deal with Universal Music Group that spanned across all of its record labels globally. In media, Ben has led business development for Yahoo! Music and worked in numerous roles at Universal Pictures, Universal Music Group, Jersey Films and Scott Rudin Productions.
Originally from White Plains, NY, Ben earned a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture from Emory University in Atlanta. Ben later received an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, California. Ben is also an award-winning photographer who served as a Contributing Writer and Photographer for The Huffington Post from 2008 - 2018.
Alvin Starks is the program director of the equality team of the Open Society Foundations U.S. Programs, overseeing grantmaking related to racial justice and racial narratives. He is a progressive racial justice thinker, writer, and strategist whose work supports a new generation of ideas and organizations to explore the intersection of human rights, racial justice, cross-movement building, and gender equity.
Bridgit Antoinette Evans is widely recognized as one of the foremost thought leaders in the culture change strategy field. A professional artist and strategist, she has dedicated her career to the relentless investigation of the potential of artists to drive cultural change in society. Fifteen years of work at the intersection of pop culture storytelling and social change has evolved into a vision for a new, hybrid culture change field in which creative and social justice leaders work together to create and popularize stories that shape the narratives, values, beliefs and behaviors that define American culture. In 2016, Bridgit was a Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow, piloting Culture Changes Us, a coordinated learning system designed to accelerate the social justice sectors’ understanding and use of culture change strategy. For Unbound Philanthropy and Ford Foundation, she has led multi-year culture change research and strategy design projects aimed at unearthing breakthrough narrative and engagement strategies for the immigrant rights and gender justice movements.