Wendell Hanes is an Emmy Award-Winning Composer and owner of Volition Sound. He earned a Sports Emmy for his work with ESPN and scored the Emmy Nominated Peacock film, The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts “The Tonight Show.” Hanes has scored over 2000 commercials and has won nearly every major award in advertising including Clios, Cannes Lions, LIA’s, Andy’s, Addys, Effies, The One Shows, and Golden Award of Montreaux’s. Hanes scored James Cameron’s The Game Changers for Netflix as well as the six-time Award-Winning Netflix documentary The Remix: Hip Hop & Fashion. He also composed the 2021 NAACP Image Award-winning Hulu documentary The Killing of Breonna Taylor, and the socially conscious 2020 opening theme music for the NBA Finals featuring Jamie Foxx and Quest Love. Hanes recently wrote songs for Disney’s The Ghost and Molly McGhee and is currently the composer and songwriter for the Nickelodeon TV show That Girl Lay Lay and Netflix’s Emmy nominated sitcom Family Reunion. He recently scored the HBO four-hour docuseries Black And Missing, premiering at DOC NYC and is currently scoring three PBS feature films: Storming Caesar’s Palace, American Reckoning
and Hazing.
Tik Tok influencer and emcee of the Growing Hope concert, Montana is an award-winning singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, social media force, and philanthropist. Montana is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and creator of the TikTok series How To: Never Forget, which is focused on Holocaust education.
Grammy winning hip hop violinist Miri Ben-Ari is a classically trained musician who has collaborated with Jay Z, Alicia Keys, Wynton Marsalis, Maroon 5, Patti Labelle, Janet Jackson, and John Legend, Ben-Ari is the founder and CEO of “Gedenk,” a non-profit dedicated to educating and encouraging self-expression among youth about anti-semitism, racism, and their brutal consequences.
Saxophonist extraordinaire and “America’s Got Talent” 2022 Golden Buzzer Winner, in addition to first runner-up on “America’s Got Talent: All-Stars,” Avery uniquely understands the importance of tolerance and inclusion after overcoming a childhood marked by constant bullying.
15–22-year-old singing sisters, known as “the black girls of country TikTok”, have performed on Shania Twain’s “Queen of Me” Tour and CMT Awards. “Just expressing ourselves to the fullest, even in music, can help set other people free because there are people who want you to stick to stereotypes, but we don’t do that,” said Kylan Boykin.
Wendell Hanes is an Emmy winning composer and owner of Volition Sound. He earned a Sports Emmy for his work with ESPN and composed the 2021 NAACP Image Award-winning Hulu documentary The Killing of Breonna Taylor. Hanes has scored over 2000 commercials and has won nearly every major award in advertising.
