Dr. Griselda Rodriguez-Solomon & Dr. Miguelina Rodriguez are the Brujas of Brooklyn. They are identical twin PhDs who merge the magic of ancestral medicine with sharp intellect. Both are expert Sociologists and Professors within the City University of New York (CUNY). Each has authored academic pieces on the effects of racialized oppression on communities of color, Afro-Dominicans in particular.  Their work has been featured across platforms including: ABC, NPR, Univision, Google, and META. As College Professors and certified Yoga instructors, they design multi-sensory workshops that provide sacred spaces to address intergenerational forms of trauma.

Fatima Logan-Alston, is an accomplished dancer, choreographer, cultural artist, and educator committed to combing historical and cultural themes in interdisciplinary performance and events. Logan-Alston earned her BFA in Dance & Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Masters in Liberal Arts from SUNY Old Westbury. She has toured internationally as a member of the  African-American-Dance Ensemble and Forces of Nature Dance Theater. Her collaborators have include Bobby Sanabria, Valerie Capers, and Ntozake Shange. Logan-Alston, has performed at Lincoln Center Outdoors, the Curtain Up Broadway Festival, and has been Guest Instructor at Barnard College, Queens College, and the University of Iowa. She is an Adjunct Professor at SUNY Old Westbury in American Studies and a Teaching Artist with Alvin Ailey Arts in Education and Community Programs. She is a recipient of the Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship from the Ford Foundation and has been awarded for her interdisciplinary work, Traditional Priests Roosted in American Places, from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.

Threads of Truth, Inc (formerly VashtiDance Theater) has existed since 2011, with a mission to uplift and  inspire our community to advocate for social justice, self-realization, and multicultural understanding through music, dance, and community engagement programming. Our community is broad and expansive, but as  African-American artists, dancers and musicians, we are committed to the development and continuation of the cultural legacy of Africa  and its Diaspora. The company has performed its repertoire of works that combine the aesthetics of contemporary and traditional African Diaspora and Western classical dance and music at national and international venues including Brooklyn Academy of Music( NY), Paramount Theater (MA), Grounds for Sculpture (NJ), African Burial Ground National Monument (NY)Durham Arts Council (NC), The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture (NY), the International Association of Blacks in Dance (Ontario, Canada), and the International African Disapora Dance Traditions Conference (Salvador, Brazil). The company has been in residence at Hunter College and Hostos Community College through the CUNY Dance Initiative, and also facilitates educational residencies throughout the New York area. In additional to invited programming, the company produces concerts on historical and cultural themes using multidisciplinary approaches of dance, live music, and documentary style film