Our Board of Directors

Rhiannon Rosalind is a multidisciplinary artist, serial entrepreneur, and social innovator, as well as the visionary Founder & CEO of Conscious Economics and the creative force behind Canada’s first music incubator dedicated to economic innovation, Lunar Studios.

Through her work, Rhiannon develops cross-sector models that integrate art, business, and public policy — positioning creativity as a catalyst for economic participation and long-term impact. She has long championed artists, women, and underserved Canadians, dedicating her career to expanding access, opportunity, and leadership within Canada’s evolving economy.

Prior to launching Conscious Economics, Rhiannon served for over a decade as CEO and sole shareholder of The Economic Club of Canada, where she became the youngest woman in Canadian history inducted into the Most Powerful Women in Business Hall of Fame. She was named a Change Agent by Canadian Business Magazine and recognized among the Power 50 by Bay Street Bull. During her tenure, she convened transformative conversations with global leaders including President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney, President Bill Clinton, and President François Hollande.

A proud mother of two sons, she is committed to building movements that unite creativity, equity, and economic resilience — strengthening artists, entrepreneurs, and communities across Canada and beyond.

Anthony Gebrehiwot is an award winning artist and community leader whose creative lens re-visions photography as an ongoing dialogue of social change between subject and society.

Gebrehiwot seeks to communicate without language in an intimate and vulnerable way: through his art, he portrays the vocabulary of race, masculinity, history, perception, and vulnerability. Combining contrasting landscapes, Black bodies, and raw human emotion, Gebrehiwot explores the affective power of Black bodies in confronting the viewer's humanity and empathy. 

His artistic exploration stems from his work with Black/pan-African diaspora communities in Toronto. As the former resident photographer at R.I.S.E. Edutainment (Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere), Gebrehiwot has intimately witnessed and documented the creative and unguarded evolutions of poets, musicians, and artists from across the city. Based in Scarborough, Gebrehiwot has worked to bring photography to youth in communities through organizations like the NIA Centre, The Power Plant, The Doris Mccarthy Gallery  and the Art Gallery of York University. His connection to youth and community, combined with his sustained self-dissection and constant desire to evolve, helped him to identify black identities as a focal topic for photographic inquiry.

Judi Lopez-Wilson is an arts, culture, and public-sector leader with over a decade of experience advancing youth empowerment through hip-hop and community-based programming. She is the Founder and Executive Director of KeepRockinYou, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering girls and young women through breakdancing. Over ten years, she led the organization’s vision and strategy, secured and managed over $400,000 in grant funding, and built strong partnerships with artists, funders, and community contributors to deliver safe, equity-centered programming.

Judi has also held senior leadership roles within Toronto’s hip-hop ecosystem, including Managing Director at Manifesto Community Projects, where she oversaw large-scale cultural programming and strengthened cross-sector partnerships. She has worked with organizations such as TO Live, Unity Charity, Breakin' Convention, Artstarts and R.I.S.E. to deliver accessible arts initiatives focused on youth engagement and social impact.

Currently, Judi serves as a Policy Advisor in Strategic Initiatives (Innovation) at Durham Region, where she provides governance support, strategic planning expertise, and performance measurement frameworks. She brings a unique ability to bridge grassroots arts leadership with systems-level strategy, advancing sustainable, equity-driven impact across sectors.

Michael Prosserman believes Art forms evolve but the power of hip-hop to transform remains unchanged. Michael Prosserman, a breakdancer who goes by the name Bboy Piecez, felt the transformative impact of his performance and saw the potential to share this impact with others like him. Using his instinct, intuition and good old trial and error Mike talks about his success in achieving life-changing outcomes for youth. He focuses on the simple yet powerful philosophies that built Unity:  the power of story-telling; building the plane while flying it; being surrounded by people smarter than you; and building new roads instead of accepting the inevitable road blocks that exist.

Michael found his passion for break dancing at a very young age. By the time he was three, Michael was already standing on his head while watching Saturday morning cartoons. Since then, he has performed for over 300 audiences, has spoken at over 100 schools, and has taught hundreds of workshops all over the world from Canada to Italy to Asia to the Arctic. Michael has competed world-wide, placing first in over 22 competitions.

Michael is the founder and former Executive Director of Unity Charity, an organization that empowers youth to be role models and leaders in their communities through after school programs in break dancing, graffiti art, spoken word poetry and beat boxing. Unity has reached over 200,000 young people across Canada.

Unity has been featured in over 50 major media outlets in Canada including Maclean’s, Toronto Star, CBC, CTV, Citytv, and many more. Unity teaches youth to use urban arts as a powerful outlet to relieve their stress and anger in a positive way.

Anne Marie Smith started her career in the music industry by pursuing engineering and production work after attending Harris Institute for the Arts in the Production Engineering Program. She interned at I.R.S. Records working with such artists as Fine Young Cannibals, Candy, Stuart Copeland, and the Infidels.

In 1992, Anne-Marie was hired by Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Canada as the A&R/Promotions Coordinator. She was promoted to the position of Creative Manager two years later and signed such songwriters as Glenn Lewis, Kardinal Offishall, Jully Black & Saukrates to the company.

From 2010-2015, Anne-Marie was the associate producer at Clear Lake Historical Productions where she supervised production budgets and synchronization clearances. Clear Lake released two documentaries - 'Jews And Baseball: An American Love Story', which was narrated by Dustin Hoffman and included interviews by Ron Howard and Larry King and ‘AKA Doc Pomus’ about the legendary songwriter Doc Pomus who penned such hits as 'Save The Last Dance For Me', 'Viva Los Vegas', 'This Magic Moment' and 'Little Sister'. 

In 2015, Anne-Marie founded Lonestar Music Services which offers business management support to various clients including Son Real, Peter Katz, DJ Shub, USS, and Iskwē. She also serves on the R.I.S.E. (Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere) Board of Directors since 2020.

Anne-Marie teaches at Harris Institute for the Arts in the Artist Management Program creating courses in Business Management, Leadership Skills, and Contracts & Negotiations.

She is also an instructor at Seneca Polytechnic for the Independent Songwriter Program creating the Music Publishing course and the Independent Music Producer Program teaching Music Industry Overview.