Attorney Adjckwc O. Browne, the founder of Browne Law and a graduate of the Florida A&M College of Law, is passionate about fostering legacy through ownership.

As a business, intellectual property and entertainment lawyer with a wide range of experience, her focus is primarily in deal-making through corporate, copyright, and trademark law.

Through her practice, she works with a diverse body of clientele, ranging from individuals and creators to established and new ventures, as well as for-profit and not-for-profit entities.

Her goal as an attorney is to help her clients resolve their legal and business affairs issues so that they can focus on what they do. Employing over 20 years of combined business acumen and legal experience, Attorney Browne optimizes legal and business affairs for individuals, startups, and businesses of all sizes.

Marva Griffiths Herman has been working in the Hollywood community for over 20 years. 

Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, she is the founder and CEO of the Caribbean Heritage Organization, Inc. (CHO) and Caribbean Heritage Magazine. CHO produces the acclaimed official Los Angeles Caribbean-American Heritage Month gala, the Caribbean Heritage Salute to Hollywood & Excellence and the CaribbeanLens International Film & Art Festival, Where Hollywood Celebrates the Caribbean™. 

In addition to serving as executive director of the CHO, she is the West Coast Representative for Institute of Caribbean Studies, the architects of National Caribbean-American Heritage Month. 

Euzhan Palcy is a writer, director and producer born in Martinique in the French West Indies.

Her first feature film, “Sugar Cane Alley,” won the Silver Lion at the 1983 Venice Film Festival, a first for a Black director.  It went on to win a César Award (French Oscar) for Best First Work, the first César won by a woman director and by a Black filmmaker.  She continued her journey with “A Dry White Season” in 1989, a drama made at the height of apartheid, becoming the first Black woman to direct a film for a major Hollywood studio and guiding Marlon Brando to his last Oscar nomination. Her films also include the musical fairytale “Siméon.” 

Palcy’s work has been an inspiration to filmmakers, contemporary artists and novelists. Recently she was awarded with the prestigious Medal of Honor from the Society of Dramatic Arts and Composers in France as well as the Medal of Honor from the French National Assembly. In Los Angeles, in November 2022, the Governors of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Science rewarded her with an Honorary Oscar for her groundbreaking significance in international cinema.

Al Johnson is a well-known and recognized abstract expressionist painter, whose works can be found in private, public, and corporate collections, and exhibitions globally.

He is known as a notable African American Expressionist Artist as well as a Commercial Artist, creating storyboard art for feature, documentary, and animated films. His storyboard art clients in the commercial and film industry are numerous, including the NFL Super Bowl, Oscar® Winning Film “The Hours” and Darren Aronofsky’s “The Fountain”.

His ability to conceptualize with a cinematic eye has led to many accomplishments. The scope of his work crosses many genres, including the creation of the original artistic renderings of the Georgia Aquarium and the oil-on-canvas commissioned portrait of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, permanently installed in Brooklyn Borough Hall, and listed in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Catalogue for American Portraits.

During the Centennial Tribute to Romare Bearden, Mr. Johnson was chosen as a Bearden 100 artist. He has exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum in Japan, Susan Bentley Gallery in London, Maison de Arts in Le Bacares, France, the Guangzhou International Art Fair in China, and an exhibition curated by Jordan Kantor during his tenure as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Most recently his work was featured at the Salzburg Global Seminar, an organization at the forefront of global movements for change in Salzburg, Austria. His portrait which launched the naming of the Shirley Chisholm United States Post Office in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn will be revealed during the 2024 Museum of the City of New York exhibition, “Changing the Face of Democracy: Shirley Chisholm at 100”.

Al Johnson’s artwork has been praised by critics for its embrace of cosmic abstraction and its exploration of new media.

Long-standing New York Super Lawyer, Top Attorney of New York Metro Area’s Outstanding Lawyer, and recognized as among The Best Lawyers in America (Copyright Law) practicing in the entertainment and business fields, Elissa Hecker has a wide range of experience in corporate, copyright, and trademark law, with clients encompassing a large spectrum of the business and entertainment world.

Since its inception, Elissa has been Chair of the Board of Directors of Dance/NYC.  She is Past Chair of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law (EASL) Section of the New York State Bar Association, Editor of the EASL Journal, and Co-Chair and founder of the EASL Pro Bono Committee.  Elissa is a frequent author, lecturer and panelist, a past Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. (CSUSA), and Associate Editor and member of the Board of Editors for The Journal of the CSUSA.