
About Us

MOVING MASCULINITY Digital Village and Global Lab is a 10-year initiative launched in 2026 developing emotional infrastructure within masculinity as leadership development, public health, civics and healing. It is rooted in a decade of research. The Digital Village centers global Black masculinity and features Black men ages 16 to 60 from across the US, the UK, and Ghana.. The Global Lab expands and extends to engage men across race, faith, culture. MOVING MASCULINITY’s Digital Village is the foundation for the Global Lab.
Built by a global team from Ghana, across the US, and the UK, MOVING MASCULINITY Digital Village is an Open Society Foundation supported initiative.
Contributors + production team

esther a. armah
Creator, MOVING MASCULINITY
Founder, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice

simon federick
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Visual Artist | Film-Maker | Photographer | Cultural Architect

OBBIE WEST
Creator – MAY I CRY? & BLACK TURMOIL
Artist | Poet


IBRAM X KENDI
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Scholar | Author | Activist

MARLON PETERSON
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Author | Executive Director | Podcaster | Activist

DIALLO SHABAZZ
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Global Education Advisor


DARNELL MOORE
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Author | Activist | Thought Leader

CEDRIC BROWN
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Author | Artist | Nonprofit Executive

WADE DAVIS II
Contributor – BROTHA NOTES
Activist | Writer | Former American Football Player




BRYONN BAIN
Lead Actor – How We Hold It
Activist | Artist | Scholar | Poet | Prison Educator

RASHEED ABIAKA
Contributor - The Dreaming Ceremony
Godfather | Father | Legal Professional


IMMANUEL 'BUDDHA' BAIN
Contributor – The Dreaming Ceremony
Musician

RENE PAYNE
Website Director
Founder & CEO Included by Favor

vincent brathwaite
UX Design Leader + CEO of Gidens

TYLER GASTON
Owner & CEO
The Gas Station Studio


TIM NAYLOR
Director of Photography
How We Hold It & The Dreaming Ceremony

DAVE MCKEEVER
Audio & Film Editor
Brotha Notes | How We Hold It |
The Dreaming Ceremony | May I Cry? | Black Turmoil

ALEX KWESI AFARI
Photographer


ADAM MORALES
Production Assistant

ROGER MOORE AMOAKO
Video Editing & Visual Graphics

ABOCHI
Audio Editor

