UNIQUE HOLLAND & AMI GASTON

Unique Holland is an educator, facilitator, and cultural strategist who has worked for over two decades developing community-engaged projects centered on racial equity and social justice explorations of community, youth leadership, and public policy.

Unique currently leads program development for World Trust Educational Services, a racial equity organization that uses film, dialogue, and transformative education models to expand the capacity for individuals and organizations to create a world free from racism.

Unique’s work as a collaborating artist and director has been performed and exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. This work is part of a long-term artistic and social engagement in conversations on equity, both in the arts and beyond.

About Ami Gaston:
Amikaeyla Gaston is a force for change. She is the co-Executive Director for World Trust Educational Services Organization.

With World Trust, she leads corporations, universities, and organizations through cultural competency, restorative justice, and racial equity training designed to facilitate, engage and support people in exploring challenging conversations.

She does expansive work with political refugees, war survivors, and at-risk populations worldwide and is often called into difficult scenarios to offer inter-cultural literacy and deep restorative justice work in support of transformative and peaceful solutions.

Her extensive studies with traditional healers and cultural artists around the healing effects of music led to the commemorative Golden Buddha performance at personal invitation by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in India.