Stacy Abramson is the Executive Director of Reboot. Before joining the staff of Reboot in October 2005, Stacy Abramson worked as Executive Producer at Large for WNYC Radio. While there, she oversaw new show development as well as The Leonard Lopate Show, the Archives Department and Radio Rookies-- an education program and that trains young people to become radio journalists. Before WNYC, Stacy worked as a Producer and Managing Director of Sound Portraits, a non-profit radio production company based in New York City. While there, she co-produced Witness to an Execution (a radio documentary that profiles the men and women whose job it is to carry out executions in Huntsville, Texas), The Jewish Giant, Youth Portraits (a series pilot reported by and about young people who had spent time in prison) and co-authored Flophouse (Random House, 2000), a collection of oral histories with portraits of men living on the Bowery. Stacy was a Leadership New York CORO fellow, an editor of Open Letters (www.openletters.net), a Reboot participant and is also on the advisory board of the Moth.
 

Deepa Fernandes brings NYWC a tremendous amount of experience, knowledge and passion about a wide range of social and artistic issues. Deepa is the founder and co-director of Radio Rootz: Kids Make Radio in Harlem, a youth media training center that focuses on skill building in the following areas: media literacy, media activism and radio production. In 2003, Deepa received an Community Fellowship from The Open Society Institute so she could continue her work with Radio Rootz. Deepa is a freelance journalist who has worked with the BBC, ABC, NPR, and Pacifica Radio. She is a well-traveled media activist who has produced award-winning features and documentaries about forgotten peoples with marginalized voices. Currently, she anchors WBAI's Wake Up Call and the nationally syndicated daily news show, Free Speech Radio News, which is heard on more than 70 stations around the country. Deepa also hosts a weekly show on WBAI called Global Movements, Urban Struggles.

Angeli Rasbury brings NYWC her vast talent as a writer, educator, attorney and activist. Angeli is founder of Griot Reading Programs, which is dedicated to promoting literacy among youth of African descent and black literature. She was an editor for Black Issues Book Review and QBR: The Black Book Review, other magazines, and community newspapers. Her essays, book reviews, profiles, features and interviews have been published in Essence, The Source, American Visions, Vibe, Black Issues Book Review, QBR: The Black Book Review, Mosaic, and other magazines, online at womensenews.com, Vibe.com and other web sites, and in numerous community papers. Her short stories have appeared in Anansi: Fiction of the African Diaspora. Her literary criticism was published in the North Carolina Literary Review. Her review work was recognized by award-winning poet Wanda Coleman in an article about the role of Black book reviewers that appeared in The Nation. She co-edited Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books (John Wiley & Sons, 1999) and is a founding editor and co-publisher of Anansi: Fiction of the African Diaspora. She also teaches poetry to children and teens at the Brooklyn Public Library and through community-based arts based programs, a creative nonfiction/memoir workshop at the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, and creative writing, college composition and African American literature at Molloy College in Long Island.

Isis Sapp-Grant is Executive Director of Youth Empowerment Mission, a not-for-profit organization that provides hope, vision and support to young people in high-risk situations, their families and communities. Youth Empowerment operates the Blossom Program For Girls, a program in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn for teenage girls at high-risk of gang involvement. She is a former gang leader and now a trained social worker and expert in youth development practices.

Rebecca Williams is a free-lance writer and Director of Evergreen Writers, a creative writing workshop program using the Amherst Writers method. She is currently finishing the second draft of Blue Truck, a novel, and counts among her favorite authors Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, and Harry Crews. A former filmmaker and film instructor at New York University, she has written several screenplays and produced one independent feature film. A recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artists Program Grant, she serves on the Board of Directors at Women Make Movies, Inc., a non-profit media arts organization based in New York City. She is also the Educational Program Coordinator for the Historical Society of Plainfield, based in historic Plainfield, New Jersey.