Meet the Team /
Meet the Team /
Michael Ward
Co-Creator
Michael Ward is an actor, host, model, and writer. Also, he’s a Noah’s Arc Stan and vinyl junkie.
In 2020, he was tapped as the host of Revolutionary Health, the show created in 2018 to promote Black gay men’s health and wellness by Counter Narrative.
Making the most of self-isolation in quarantine, Michael and Joshua Jenkins spearheaded Black, Gay, stuck at home, an interactive movie night centering Black queer characters while in quarantine.
Onstage he’s played Cory in Fences, Clorox in The Me Nobody Knows, Atlanta Black Theatre Festival original plays Discarded (Sherryle K. Jackson 2018) and Lines (BJ Holmes 2019), and Holiday Break (Darrell Grant).
He stars as Midnight in Steven L. Coard’s web series Life After Griffith. He wrapped production in 2019 on short film The One Who Marched (Sweet Tea Productions) as Eric Jeffries. Before Corona, he was set to star in Toni Bryce’s upcoming romantic comedy film.
He’s appeared in Metro.Pop Magazine shot by Clayton James Cubbitt and M-Mensuel magazine shot by Ethan James. In 2018, he was one of the featured models in the SOS symposium conference materials.
His writing appears in Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call (Vintage Entity Press, 2014), Our Happy Hours: LGBT Voices... (Flashpoint Publications, 2017), UPTOWN Magazine and The Counter Narrative Project’s Reckoning Blog.
JOshua Henry Jenkins
Co-Creator
Joshua Henry Jenkins (he/him/his) is an interactive media strategist & organizer of community. He is a child of rural North Carolina.
He currently is Director of Marketing at Theatre Communications Group. Previously, he was Director of Web and New Media Strategies at Americans for the Arts. In service of the communities to which he belongs, he creates and amplifies work that uplifts BIPOC and LGTBQIA+ identifying folks, citizens of rural areas, and most importantly those who exist at those intersections.
He is the former board chair for the Arts Administrators of Color Network where he led all marketing and communications efforts. He co-authored The Impacts of COVID-19 on Black, Indigenous, Artists and Arts Administrators of Color in the U. S. which was published in The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society in November 2022. In addition, he produced and co-hosted the monthly podcast Art Accordingly, which interrogated issues of equity and inclusion in the arts. The podcast was presented live at various convenings nationally including the National Performance Network Conference, SphinxConnect, and the Arts Equity Summit.
Joshua freelances as a digital strategist supporting work at organizations such as Diverse City Fund, National Guild for Community Arts Education, and NABA Metro DC. Committed to the preservation of culture, he works as a graphic designer with a dedicated store of designs that function as wearable celebrations of queer and trans people of color and nods to moments that shaped his identity. He managed the reprint of the official biography of heralded singer Phyllis Hyman and the launch of the official website for the late Grammy-winning R&B icon Betty Wright.
Joshua received his Master of Arts in Interactive Media from Elon University in 2012 and his Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010.