Josh Gryniewicz is a storyteller first and foremost. As a creative, he has applied his craft to writing, spoken word, filmmaking, comic books, and other medium. His nonfiction has been published in PopMatters, the Guardian, Huffington Post, and Medium.

Outside of these pursuits, Josh has spent his career in nonprofit, initially as a crisis counselor and later in external relations. For over a decade, he has worked in public interest communication. He served as the communication director for Cure Violence, an internationally renowned violence prevention program featured in the award-winning film The Interrupters. Josh helmed the rebrand of Integrate Health, a global health initiative in West Africa, on two continents helping increase their budget by nearly $1 million and propelling the organization forward as a thought leader. Most recently, Josh led communication efforts for Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH), a Program Office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on national multi-sector data sharing to address social determinants of health.

In 2018, he founded Odd Duck to combine his passions of storytelling and social change.

Carly is a tax preparer (Enrolled Agent, to be exact), lifelong theatre person, and online business manager with a penchant for cheesy carbs, cross stitching, and books of all kinds. Carly lives in Memphis, where she loves the heat and humidity and basically lives on her screen porch.

Carly graduated from UNC Asheville in 2009 with a degree in Drama and Literature, and spent the last 10 years pretending to be small children onstage, most notably Peter Pan, Pinkalicious, and Junie B. Jones (all multiple times). She also earned a Master’s in Arts Administration from Savannah College of Art and Design, learning how to turn her make believe into a functioning business.

When she’s not responding to your emails, helping Ansley with whatever she can, or preparing and filing taxes for her clients, Carly is probably reading in the bathtub, playing board games with her partner, Nikki, or stubbing her toes on things because she’s inordinately clumsy. She likes lists in threes.

For more than 15 years, Tamara Murray has helped social-change organizations say what they want to say and get heard — from the front page of The New York Times to award-winning public education campaigns. Tamara specializes in branding, messaging and content creation. One of her superpowers is conveying an idea in the fewest words possible. She has a track record of persuading audiences on issues including homelessness, violence prevention, trauma-informed care, civil liberties, and education and health equity.

Previously, Tamara was a vice president at Fenton Communications and has also served in-house with The San Francisco Foundation, ACLU of San Diego and NARAL Pro-Choice California. She is the author of Awesome Supervisory Skills: Seven Lessons for Young, First-Time Managers, traveled and worked remotely by van before #vanlife was a thing, and can be spotted cycling around Santa Barbara, California with her husband Chris.

Charad, a Chicago grown Illustrator and Concept Artist, uses the elements and principles of designto tell the narrative of the broken, beaten and the damned. His mission is to take American media by storm and transcend the prevailing concept (and face) of “The Hero.” Charad didn’t see too many heroes that looked like him growing up as a cartoon and comic book geek. To that aim, he’s created such diverse series as the creator of “City of OCEANBURO” and “Keeper of the Dome.” If he can play a small role in changing that public narrative, he would be satisfied with my time on earth. He has also illustrated the poster for the indy film META and developed comics for the online depression prevention curriculum CATCH-IT.

Zoe rain began her career of photography in high school, where she explored a love of documenting live music, leading to her first large project, traveling as the fulltime photographer on Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ world tour in 2012. At age 22, after relocating to Chicago, Zoe secured a cover of Rolling Stone. With a bold and edgy style that demands attention, her imagery captures even the most high-profile subjects in a vulnerable and intimate light.

Since tour, her work has been published in Rolling Stone magazine, Vanity Fair, MTV, & the New York Times, along with national ad campaigns for Nike, Wolverine Boots, Swisher Sweets, Headspace, and Redbull.

Zoe’s love for humanity and drive to pursue understanding of the world bleeds into her visuals, magnifying a love for hip hop, social justice, candid vulnerability, and personal empowerment. She frequently donates her skills with nonprofits including construction for change and hope through health, and has helped raise thousands of dollars in auctions of her prints.

Kitty Overton is an executive producer with extensive experience managing the creative development and production of purpose-driven strategic content. She established and led the strategic content practice lead at Fenton, a premier social change communications agency, where she oversaw the development and production of multi-platform digital and broadcast content for foundations, non-profits and select brands working to address our most pressing environmental, social justice, and human rights challenges.

One of many highlights of her time at Fenton was guiding Upworthy through the formation and launch of an original branded content division, instituting formal production processes and overseeing the creative development and production of projects for Environmental Working Group, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the CSR division of Whirlpool. Other memorable clients at Fenton included The CDC Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, California Community Foundation, California Health Care Foundation, Kresge Foundation, ASPCA, American Heart Association and Green Century Funds.

Prior to joining Fenton, Kitty was co-founder and executive producer of Good Films, a boutique commercial production company of broadcast and multi-media marketing content for some of the world’s most iconic brands including Quaker Oats, J&J, Unilever, SAP, Garnier, and Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Ansley is a font geek and rolling stone who will shamelessly eat all the guacamole at your party. Despite building the Internet, she’s hopelessly behind on the latest memes. She spends a very large chunk of her free time playing Dungeons & Dragons.

In 2009, Ansley graduated from Tufts University into the recession and found that her most useful skill was not anything she’d studied in school, but her knowledge of Photoshop, gained from a bootleg copy of the software a friend gave her in 8th grade. This led her to a job at a web design and development company in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, where she also learned to code.

Since then, she and her long term partner, Danny, have hopped and skipped from New York to Seattle and back, and are now settled (for the time being) in Jersey City where, funnily enough, you can find the best views of New York City’s skyline.

She likes red wine and only wears socks that don’t pass her ankles. And lima beans are gross.

When she’s not designing and building a beautiful website for you, she’s slaying bad guys as a College of Lore Bard, throwing a ball for her dog, inhaling television, blowing off work to go to happy hour with Danny, or most likely sleeping because that’s approximately one third of her life.

Andria (Andi) Goodall is an aspiring lifelong learner, talker, and amateur food taster. While
pursuing her undergraduate degree at Tulane University, Andi discovered the world of public
health. There, her interest in health equity, social determinants of health, and communications
blossomed. After college, Andi started her career in Chicago supporting one of the country’s
largest hospital-community collaboratives in the country. Fascinated by the U.S. health system
and determined to improve it, Andi is continuing her education at Harvard University for her
Master in Public Health focused on health management.

Outside of the public health sphere, Andi spends most of her time using her food Instagram as
an excuse to cook, bake, and eat out more than most say is humanly possible.