Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher, single mama of Tiburcio, daughter of a houseless, disabled, indigenous mama Dee, and the co-founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She is also the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America, co-editor of Decolonizer’s Guide to a Humble Revolution, Born and raised in Frisco, and Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears Across Mama Earth. In 2011, she co-launched The Homefulness Project, a landless peoples self-determined land liberation movement in the Ohlone/Lisjan/Huchuin territory known as Deep East Oakland, the Bank of ComeUnity Reparations, and co-founded a liberation school for children, Deecolonize Academy. Tiny is also the facilitator of several cultural and theatre projects such as the Po Poets Project/Poetas POBREs Proyecto (co-founded with Leroy Moore), welfareQUEENs, the Theatre of the POOR/Teatro de los pobres. She has taught Poverty Scholarship theory and practice in universities, street corners, and encampments from Columbia to Skid Row. In 2022, she narrated a short movie based on her children’s book, When Mama and Me Lived Outside: One Family’s Journey Through Homelessness, which has subsequently won 22 awards across the country. Tiny was selected by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy as their 2024 Activist-in-Residence.

Adrian Diamond is a multi-hyphenate Film/TV/Music creator born and raised in LA. The son of an African-American father and Portuguese immigrant mother, Adrian got his start in the entertainment industry at a young age after starring in Disney’s musical “The Lion King.” He is a graduate of Harvard College’s interdisciplinary Social Studies program and toured the world singing jazz a cappella with The Harvard Din & Tonics. In addition to performing, he writes, directs, produces and edits mission-driven narrative, documentary and music projects through his production company, Green Diamond Projects.