Jason Orr is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, marketing consultant, cultural arts curator, and festival producer, most notably, FunkJazz Kafé Arts & Music Festival and Life Arts Documentary Film Festival + Music Conference. He’s the director, writer, and producer of the award-winning documentary film, “FunkJazz Kafé: Diary Of A Decade”, producer of the award-winning “Maynard” documentary on former Atlanta mayor and visionary, Maynard Jackson, producer/director of “Stepping Into Tomorrow’ and director of “Hoodwinked: The Nigga Factory,” a web series produced by Speech of Arrested Development.

Orr has also produced and directed short films and music videos with several mainstream artists such as Meshell Ndegeocello, UK artist Omar Lye-Fook, Dionne Farris, and Van Hunt.

On-screen, Orr has appeared as himself on TV One’s hit series “Unsung,” Centric’s “Leading Ladies – India Arie,” and the 2023 Atlanta Journal Constitution documentary, The South Got Something To Say, providing expertise commentary on music and social history.

In 2014, he received a proclamation from the City of Atlanta for his contributions to the city’s music, film, and cultural arts communities.

Randy Ferguson is a DJ, musician, playlist curator, musicologist, and diversity & inclusion professional. He received his bachelor’s in Economics and his master’s in Higher Educational Administration, both at Stony Brook University. He currently works at NewYork-Presbyterian as a Program Manager in Diversity and Inclusion.

His love of music has been with him all his life. He went into music as a hobby, as he started writing lyrics and composing music by the age of 12. He started learning how to produce music by the age of 14. Then, he started DJing by 19, which he currently does.

His curated playlists, as he describes his playlists “as an album listening experience.” He has curated up to 20 playlists. He is a huge fan of Prince, Michael Jackson, and Stevie Wonder (his top 3 artists of all time) and studied their music and life, which opened the doors for him to become a musicologist. He hopes to dedicate his life to music by starting his own record label. He is also currently 1/4th of the Purple Townhouse hosts!

Mila Asha is a dedicated member of the Next Power Generation, willing to do the work to learn and explore all that the world of Prince has to offer and finding ways to keep Prince’s legacy alive!

Adam Rudegeair is a prolific composer, performer, filmmaker, and educator based in Melbourne, Australia. His music is rooted in jazz and funk, with significant influences from the sounds of New Orleans and Minneapolis. His current projects as a leader include Lake Minnetonka, The Bowie Project, and Retconned Bond.

In 2021 Adam completed his Masters studies at Box Hill Institute with the thesis, ‘Strange Changes: Re-imagining Jazz Structures for Improvisation Utilising the Compositions of David Bowie’.

Since 2008 Adam has presented the weekly jazz radio program Black Wax on PBS 106.7FM.

Alena Saldivar is a Prince content creator and host of The One YouTube channel. In between creating Prince videos on YouTube, she is most active on Princestagram ( 😏 get it?), where she documents her experience as a young fan in a post-Prince world.

Andrea Swensson is an author, podcast host, and music journalist in Minneapolis. She hosts the Official Prince Podcast and has contributed music journalism to numerous publications including NPR Music, Pitchfork, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, City Pages, and The Current, where she previously hosted The Local Show. Her first book, Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound, was released in October 2017 by the University of Minnesota Press and honored with a Minnesota Book Award. She will release her next two books in 2024: a biography of the Minneapolis blues legend Cornbread Harris, and a 40th anniversary retrospective of Prince’s Purple Rain.

Anil Dash is a tech entrepreneur and writer recognized as one of the technology industry’s staunchest advocates for more humane, inclusive, and ethical technology. He leads the popular friendly coding community Glitch, where programmers have created millions of apps on the open web. He was also recognized by the Webby Awards for its Lifetime Achievement award in 2022, where he honored Prince by accepting his award with the same speech Prince used when receiving the same award 16 years earlier. Described by the New Yorker as a “blogging pioneer,” his personal website has been cited in sources ranging from the New York Times to the BBC to TMZ, and in hundreds of academic papers. As a writer and artist, Dash has been a contributing editor and monthly columnist for Wired, had his works exhibited in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and collaborated with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on one of the most popular Spotify playlists of 2018. In 2013, Time named @anildash one of the best accounts on Twitter, and he is the only person ever retweeted by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Prince, a succinct summarization of Dash’s interests. Dash has been a featured speaker and guest in a broad range of media ranging from the Aspen Ideas Festival to SXSW to Desus and Mero’s late-night show, as well as on the official Prince podcast discussing Prince’s long history of technological innovation.

Dash is based in New York City, where he lives with his wife Alaina Browne and their son Malcolm. He has never played a round of golf, drank a cup of coffee, or graduated from college.