Founder

The Founder

Shalonda Ingram

Shalonda Ingram, founder of Nursha Project™ is a strategist, producer, and social entrepreneur committed to transforming the planet via pro-activism and to sociopolitical change via community empowerment and civic, youth, and arts engagement. She also founded Born Brown: All Rights Reserved®, a social enterprise agency that promotes understanding and collaboration among people of color with various origins by countering oppressive media with messaging that evokes self-acceptance and self-love and United States of Consciousness™, a consortium of responsible business to business consumers united by their interest to leverage purchasing power.

In 2005, Shalonda partook in the manifestation of the Bay Area Black United Fund document, “Microloan and Worker Cooperative: A Strategy for Youth Enterprise Development,” which explored microfinance lending for youth entrepreneurs. Shalonda has participated in several college and university panel discussions including Hip Hop and Religion organized by the Department of Performance Studies at New York University and sponsored by Peace Out East, Laney College’s panel on Women of Color and Ethnic Studies, and Providence College’s panel on Human Behavior in Social Systems.

Recently, she moderated the Young Women’s Health and Leadership Summit at the University of California, San Francisco and contributed to a discussion on “Strategizing Social Marketing” in community-based health research at the Black and Latino Student CaucusThird Annual Minority Health Advocacy Conference at the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. In addition to serving as the Producer at Dance Theater Workshop, Shalonda sits on various arts funding councils including the City of Oakland’s Funding Advisory Board and the Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Regrant Program.

In 2009, she was nominated for The Corporation for National & Community Service Eli Segal Award and the New York Innovative Theater Award for the Nursha Project production, Where My Girls At?. Shalonda is continually exploring ways through which she can fulfill her commitment to creative exchange and sustainability in light of infinite possibility.