Partners
BrandHuman is fortunate to collaborate with a wide variety of wonderful people and companies that bring their expertise and talents to us and enrich our work, conversations, and events.
Companies
People
Holly Finigan | Nantucket blACKbook
Holly Finigan excels at connecting people and brands with the best that Nantucket Island has to offer. Over the past five years, her lifestyle guide, Nantucket blACKbook, has reinvented ways for businesses to market and brand on the island. Holly runs the entirety of her platforms around advocacy, not advertising. From producing and hosting events to travel scouting in resort destinations to creating entrepreneur retreats on island and off, Holly has a true passion for curating quality content and connections in fresh and exciting ways.
Allyson Toy | Red Bull Studios
Formerly at The Fader, Allyson Toy is now an artist marketing manager at Red Bull Studios. Currently residing in New York, Allyson DJs and enjoys connecting like-minded individuals.
Bliss Lau's visionary approach to jewelry design is intrinsically rooted in the concept of jewelry as a physical experience — inspired by sensuality and structure. Throughout the evolution of her work, Bliss has elegantly juxtaposed dichotomous relationships — bold and delicate, bound and free, organic and linear— and embraced the interplay between them to create both fluid and kinetic forms.
Jessa Blades is a makeup artist, natural beauty/wellness expert, and herbalist based in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Inspired by the idea of true healing and wellness, Jessa made the switch to natural/non-toxic beauty products and founded her company, Blades Natural Beauty, in 2008, providing simple routines, pure products, and expert advice. Her goal then and now is to provide sustainable beauty routines, pure products, and expert advice for anyone looking to detox their medicine cabinet and heal—instead of hide—their imbalances.
After a 20-year career in international fashion modeling, trend forecasting, and brand building, Gemma Gambee is most at home when sitting in meditation and teaching what this practice has generously given. She classically trained for more than two decades in the traditions of Yoga, Bhakti, Vedanta, and Tantric Shaivism. When she is not meditating, she's wrapped up in other creative pursuits like drawing, painting and deep-diving brand strategy work in the fashion, art, design, and film industries.
Laurie Segall is a senior technology correspondent for CNN and editor-at-large for CNN Tech, covering the intersection of technology and culture. Segall is also the host of CNN's first CNNgo original, Mostly Human with Laurie Segall, a six-part investigative docuseries, exploring sex, love, death - humanity - through the lens of tech. An award winning journalist, Segall specializes in investigative reports showing the impact of technology on our daily lives, building on her long standing focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. Her work appears across all CNN platforms.
Segall was named Forbes’ “30 under 30,” Mashable’s Seven Top Journalist to Subsribe to on Facebook. She is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including Internet Week New York and SXSW, where she regularly leads CNN’s technology coverage.
Lisa Von Wiese is a New York based stylist who believes that being fashionable now is expressing your values to harmonize mind with body, the internal with the external. Wiese understands that knowing yourself is the difference between fashion (what outside forces tell you to wear) and style (the way you express your unique self). She has the ability to guide you to dig deep and express your core values with resonance.
Kim has been sculpting jewelry for over 10 years. She has always loved art since I was a child. Her calling for jewelry design came when she worked at an art gallery and realized that she wanted to be the artist. After working in a gallery, she decided it was time to tap into her own artistic side. She loved the idea of being able to sculpt anything she wanted.
Kim’s inspiration comes from nature and the mystery behind the veil of life. This is a feeling she tries to capture with her designs. She loves ritual and symbolism, finding her inspiration communing with the spirit in nature, animals, and people. She loves to make jewelry that carries an energy of inner-strength and contains the power from the design or the stones I set into them. Kim keeps her creative fire going by connecting to people and their stories.
Jesse Boykins is a world soul artist originally from Jamaica, who later relocated to Miami and finally to Brooklyn. His first EP, "Dopamine: My Life On My Back" was released February 14, 2008, and his follow up "The Beauty Created LP"
was released November 25, 2008 through NomaDic MuSic.
Jill Lindsey is a one-of-a-kind, multi-talented businesswoman extraordinaire. Her background in fashion design combined with her innate sense of how to host memorable and magical events led her to open JILL LINDSEY—her namesake department store—in her longtime nabe of Fort Greene. The store itself acts as a community hub, inviting customers and neighbors alike to chat at the wine and coffee bar, experience the wellness center, attend events, and shop for artisanal clothing and home goods.
Biet Simkin | Center of the Cyclone
Biet Simkin is the Founder of Center of the Cyclone, an immersive experience that weaves meditation, self-inquiry, art, music and fashion, to offer an explosive experience. Biet’s feeling was that the world of the intellect, fashion and art needed spirituality, and the world of spirituality was often missing the mark and needed some vanity and fire.
Jyah Hoy | The Carry-On Collective
Jyah Hoy is co-founder of The Carry-On Collective, Inc. (TCO), which connects environmental and social causes to people by way of experiences and conversations for good. Taking A Gamble On The Life Adventures To Come, TCO Was Started As A Vehicle To Reconnect To Self, Community And The World. Equal Parts Yin And Yang, The Babes At TCO Are Hell Bent On Having Fun, All While Changing The World.
Erik Marinovich is a San Francisco based lettering artist and designer, and a co-founder of Friends of Type. Since 2009, he has drawn letters, logos and type for nice folks like: Nike, Target, Google, Hilton, Facebook, Sonos, Sharpie, The Criterion Collection, Air Canada, Gap, and Ford Motor Company. In 2012 he co-founded Title Case, a creative work space that conducts workshops and lectures.
Kalisa Augustine | Crystal Bed Therapy
Kalisa Augustine is a certified Crystal Light Bed Practitioner in Brooklyn, New York, who uses spiritual technology and quantum alchemy to detoxify and purify the electromagnetic field. She is trained in Intuitive Communication, Mediumship, Sound Healing, Crystal Release Therapy, Soul Retrieval, Chromo Therapy, Magnet Therapy, Spirit Attachment, Multidimensional Reality, Karmic Energy, Past Life Integration & Healing, and Spiritual Psychology with a focus on the curation of energetic flow and harmony.
Ryan Weiss- Walking up with Ryan
Ryan Weiss is the guy people turn to when they feel stuck, lost, depressed, anxious, and fed up- when they yearn to feel alive, happy, inspired, safe, and can’t quite seem to find their way. Ryan helps people accomplish their big goals at work, in relationships, and with their health by becoming centered in their confidence, creativity, and power.
Ryan has been referred to as LA’s premier life coach and is a certified Kundalini Yoga and meditation teacher. Ryan is also the creator of the morning email aptly named, Waking Up with Ryan, reaching thousands of people. Through his one-on-one coaching, emails, interviews, corporate retreats, and international wellness retreats, Ryan breaks down the spiritual and psychological tools we all need to thrive in our daunting, complicated world.
Formerly he performed on Broadway in Wicked and departed from a career as a film/television producer to launch his coaching and speaking work.
Shayna Kulik is a New York–based creative director, author and brand strategist who has worked with clients including Apple, Estée Lauder, and Fisher Price. Kulik is also the founder of Pattern Pulp Studio, a trend forecasting and design company dedicated to realizing emerging concepts in print and pattern. Her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Design*Sponge, Elle Decor, and House Beautiful.
Anthony Demby is the Founder of the Cultural Consultancy Humbleriot. He is story teller and plays in the spaces of music curation, cultural programming, & social impact and thrives on creating transformative experiences and narratives that resonate with the soul.
Born in Uruguay and raised in New York City, Gabe Saporta was majoring in philosophy and political science at Rutgers University when he was discovered, and decided to pursue a career in music. Touring the world throughout his 20'2, he enjoyed multi-platinum success as the singer and creative force behind Cobra Starship.
In 2013 Saporta married fashion designer Erin Fetherston, and although he continued his career as an artist (releasing his biggest hit to date, "You Make Me Feel"), his true dream was to start a family. He thus began stepping out of the spotlight and into the business side of the music industry. At the beginning of 2016, Gabe moved to California (with Erin, of course), launched The Artist Group and welcomed a baby boy (the first of many, he hopes).
Andrea Praet | The Uplift Project
As co-founder of The Uplift Project, Andrea Praet curates and produces events and experiences that are transformative for the mind, body and spirit. She also collaborates with creative agency Range on seasonal trend direction for clients within the active and outdoor industries, such as Reebok.
KAMAU
Brooklyn based Maryland raised singer, rapper, producer, and visual artist KAMAU possesses the ability to completely change our perception of what is considered to be popular music. He fuses his lifelong musical, cultural, physical, and emotional influences to create soundtracks to his life that speak of both his internal and external experiences. KAMAU brings an electrifying performance, a genuine spirit and a powerful message through his craft. Bursting onto the scene with his debut EP "A Gorgeous Fortune" in July 2016, he followed it up with a string of national and international shows. KAMAU now prepares to release his second project and to introduce the world to his movement.
Elizabeth Traina is a working artist, award winning muralist, lightworker and workshop facilitator. Elizabeth works with individuals, groups, and spaces offering her gifts motivated by guiding principles that enable consciousness awakening and sovereign activation. In 2009, Elizabeth created her Art & Consciousness Curriculum, integrating spiritual development into her innovative community building workshops and trainings.
Jess Davis is the founder of Folk Rebellion - a movement where she promotes slower-living and the more mindful use of technology.
As a formerly plugged-in digital strategist and award-winning brand consultant, her fast tech-based career allowed her a unique perspective from the inside - out.
After 10+ years of helping clients find their digital voices, Jess looked up and realized she had in fact, helped create a society that was no longer present or connected at all. After much soul searching, research, and family-imposed vacations offline, she discovered her calling - to use her megaphone to inspire folks (and herself) to return to living in "real-life" ... all while balancing their digital one.