Student Power Leadership And Activism Together
Ebony Ali (aka Icon Ebony-Fierce) is a Philadelphia based performance artist that has one mission: to change people’s perception of artistic expression one subculture at a time. Ebony has a background in theatre, dance, and spoken word performance. Ebony have been community organizing, curating events all throughout Philadelphia since 2012. Ebony also specializes in burlesque, performance art, and drag. Their content includes body positivity, political/social issues, gender equality, etc. They are also a co curator for festivals like Phreak N Queer, Hot Bits Film Festival, Snatcherella 3000 and more things always centering QTPOC people with an alternative point of view. Ebony is currently a board member of the William Way Community Center.
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Galaei’s SPLAT program supports the empowerment and leadership development of QTBIPOC youth and young adults through individual coaching, group support, education, prevention, community mobilization, and community engagement.
Galaei provides an affirming and empowering environment where young adults are coached through various issues relating to sexual health, education, employment, conflict resolution, and trauma.
SPLAT also focuses on enrichment programming that allows youth and young adults to explore various forms of self expression. We believe that while education and prevention is a major part of our work, we must create an environment for young adults and youth to express their various walks of life and expressions. We achieve this by ensuring that unmet needs are met with linkages to care and resources for QTBIPOC young adults and youth while cultivating and facilitating groups that explore everything from makeup, drag, music, performance, event production 101, gaming, and more! We also have healing groups focused on families, community building, holistic self care and queer media education.
Through Our One on One counseling sessions, we use a trauma-informed model to make our clients feel safe and affirmed. Through the course of our sessions, we work on completing a self-empowerment plan in conjunction with the client.