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We are cultural and media activists with a devotion to justice and peace. We have created a new, progressively motivated organization to provide unfiltered and non-censored voice and visibility to the issues, expression, culture and politics of young people around the world. We see media and culture as an important and untapped tool for social change.

CTG Biographies

Karl Carter, Co-Founder

Karl Carter

Karl is a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of George Washington University, where he specialized in electronic media marketing. With 17 years of experience, an entrepreneurial spirit and a penchant for doing things differently, Karl is considered to be an expert guerrilla marketer.

Karl headed Burrell’s creative marketing department, where he pioneered “guerrilla media.” While at Burrell he worked on the Truth antismoking campaign, for which he created and produced the nationally syndicated radio show, truth.FM. Soon after the launch of the Truth campaign, Karl and his partners started the award-winning guerrilla marketing agency GTM Inc.

Monifa Akinwole Bandele

Monifa is a 2004 recipient of the Ford Foundation Leaders for a Changing World Award, the 2005 Essence Women Who Shape the World Award, and the 2006 Louis E Burnham Award. Most recently she served as the National Field Director for Right to Vote, which is a national collaborative of the eight major civil rights organizations. The campaign’s mission is to end felony disfranchisement. This RTV effectively helped to change the law in three states, expanding the right to vote to 250,000 formerly incarcerated people.

While a student at UC Berkeley, Kamel became involved with Critical Resistance panel on juvenile justice issues for their first nationwide conference and was West Coast Marketing Director for BLU, a conscious hip-hop magazine. During this time, Kamel was a key organizer in successful events, such as the Tupac One Nation concert and conference and the first Black August hip-hop benefit on the West Coast.

Tafarai Bayne

Tafarai Bayne currently lives in Los Angeles, California where he was born and raised. His professional experience runs the gamut but he has always been firmly entrenched in social cause oriented work. He began doing community work professionally at 19 years old, hosted a youth oriented political talk show on web radio, played a key part in organizing many mass demonstrations and protest around the country and to this day still travels the country conducting workshops and trainings on various aspects of community organizing. He himself has participated in many leadership training programs that have helped hone his skills including: Fire Fellowship (2001), Public Allies Los Angeles (2002), and California Lead Organizers Institute (2004).

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