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Zya Brown is the founder of Think 2wice International, a non-profit organization that provides culturally relevant initiatives and programming to individuals who are incarcerated as well as communities who are impacted by gun and gang violence.

Advocate, Script Writer, Theatre Director and up and coming Film Maker, Ms Brown a community leader with lived experience, unified former inmates, gang members,
youth and community leaders to combat the rising gun violence that was plaguing many neighborhoods in the City of Toronto. This collaboration birthed the ‘Think 2wice’ organization. Four years after It’s inception, In 2009, Ms. Brown began developing and facilitating programming and theatre productions for Black inmates. By 2014, Think 2wice otherwise known as ‘ Zya and the Think 2wice Theatre Group’ expanded to a total of 8 federal institutions providing a variety of initiatives including theatre programing to the Black inmates.

Marcell Wilson is the Founder & President of The One By One Movement Inc, a keynote speaker, a SME in gang culture and theory & consultant specializing in intervention & prevention strategy.

Marcell was born in Canada to a Jamaican Canadian father & Caucasian Canadian mother (15 years old at the time of his birth) and was raised in the south-west end of Toronto in public housing, a place called Swansea Mews (Parkdale area). This is where Marcell would begin his path on a negative lifestyle trajectory to eventually becoming a gang member/leader.

This led to Marcell becoming imbedded in the global organized criminal underworld and working with some of the planets most notorious organized groups. Marcell has spent periods of time in places such as Lima Peru, Bogota Colombia & Panama City Panama to name a few.

Dunia Nur is of African descent residing in Edmonton, Alberta. Dunia has a dual degree in social work and a Bachelor of Child and Youth Care and Executive Education Certificate in business and executive leadership.

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