Speakers and Presenters

Marlon
Marlon is a griot who enjoys telling stories. He uses photography, anthropology, filmmaking, and writing to share stories of love, imagination and passion. He is the cultural architect and spiritual leader of The Awakenings Movement, a grassroots community of social visionaries and culture shapers in Houston, Detroit, and Nairobi. He lives out that architecture as the General Manager of The Eat Gallery, a gallery for emerging culinary artists that features art on plates where traditional galleries feature art on walls. He is the author of "Wake Up: Hip Hop Christianity and the Black Church." He will be walking the MYLE participants through a three-day journey of engaging presentations.

Starboarders
Matt, Greg and Bill
Matt, Greg and Bill met in 2006. Over the course of several years Matt and Bill formed a bond musically and began pursuing music together. Working with several other local musicians, they gained some ground and saw the project begin to take shape. They officially became Starboarders in 2009. What had begun as a simple gathering of a few guys with a common desire to make music had become something much more. As they grew and matured in the music, they decided to begin working several songs up to make an EP. After meeting Yanic Bercier, who heard the Conversations EP, they were encouraged to take the work that had been done on the EP and make a full length album. After a bit of band turmoil, they decided to stay a three-piece group, while bringing in musicians to record and tour. Over the course of 2010 and into 2011 they worked to record their debut album CHROMA which is now available.
MYLE House Band
Directed by the Rev. Yeheil Curry and Jonathon Ailebouni, this nine-piece band represents a variety of musical talents from across the nation. MYLE is thrilled to announce the names of the MYLE House Band performers: Jonathan Hemphill, Stephen Styles, Omar Turcuios-Mixco, Karis Ailabouni, Isaac Trimble, Becca Kirk, and Karla Malpica.