BOARD OF ADVISEES
Leading the community to peace one story at a time.
The dynamics of our team are professional healers and educators of the community. We are determined to offer time and energy with great intention to strengthen the minds, body, and spirit of the community. Broad Ambitions does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.
Dr. Rahsheda D. Perine, PhD Novelist. Clinical psychologist. has been a licensed Clinical Psychologist since 2001. She received her undergraduate degree from Florida A&M University and her Doctorate from the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Perine has taught at University of Southern Mississippi, Xavier University and Southern University in Baton Rouge and has conducted workshops regarding cultural diversity and issues related to mental health diagnoses and treatment. She has worked within the prisons, schools, nursing homes, and state organizations as a psychologist and in leadership capacity. She is also the former President of the Greater New Orleans Chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists. Dr. Perine currently a professor at Prarie View A&M in Prarie View,TX.
Taronce Knight, Originally from Louisiana has made Houston, TX home for 23 years. Receiving her Bachelors of Arts at Southern University at New Orleans in 2008, she continued her education earning a Masters in curriculum and instruction at University of Houston. She is currently an advocate for teachers and curriculum development.
Viktor Le Givens is a found object installation performance artist whose practice centers around the gathering and arrangement of ancestral objects to activate spaces for site specific public rituals. By connecting the material culture of his ancestors with pre and post modern spiritual theologies, le. Givens hopes to extend and reimagine the folk customs of his family . His material archive is comprised of the forgotten and discarded household items found during excavations of East Texas, Louisiana, Havana Cuba and Mexico City. . Through the accumulation of these rich cultural artifacts , le. Givens. seeks to create spaces that inspire the activation of cultural and spiritual memory.
THE ART CONSULTANTS
AN ARTISTS' VISION IS GREATER THAN SELF. ART STAINS AND EXPANDS HUMANITY.
Lead Acting Expert
sole-proprietor of Bentley's House of Fame. Niesha earned a ​Master of Liberal Arts in Drama ​at the University of St. Thomas, a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts at Southern University and A&M College, a ​Diploma in Writing for Children & Teens from the Institute of Children's Literature, and a Graduate Certificate in Paralegal Studies at Rice University's Glasscock School. All of Niesha's educational pursuits are prevalent in her coaching sessions.
Lead Screenwriting Expert
Studied at LSU and finished from Southern University of New Orleans with a Bachelors of Arts in Mass communications and print Journalism. Rhodesia continued her career as a journalist for several years with the Final Call. She published her first book Picking and Blackberries in 2007 and
currently has the fictional novel Until You walked in My Genes for sale on Amazon. She has directed and produced Cairo's Egypt on Tubi and Amazon Prime.
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Founder/Director
Bashirah Perine,
also known as Medina Sunrise, is a New Orleans native, griot, playwright, percussionist, and mother with a strong theater background. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Southern University A&M and advanced her playwriting skills at DePaul University in 2014.
Perine has performed in notable theater productions nationwide, including solo performances like Hair Crownicles at MATCH Theatre (Houston, TX) and MPAACT (Chicago, IL), as well as ensemble work in Im Still A Woman(MATCH Theatre, Houston, TX), Crime Scene Anthology, and Beast Women Productions(Collaboraction Theatre, Chicago, IL). She has also performed in For Colored Girls...(Columbia College, Chicago, IL) and Importance of Being Earnest (Hayden Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA).
A dedicated educator, Perine received her Texas Teacher Certification in Theater for grades EC-12 and has been teaching theater in Texas schools since 2016. In 2020, she founded Broad Ambitions, an organization that uses performance art to “share stories to heal the heart and cure the mind.”
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