Bart Eddy is an educator, entrepreneur and community development advocate who has worked in Detroit for more than 40 years. He co-founded Detroit Community Schools (1997), the Sunbridge International Collaborative (2012) and currently directs the “Brightmoor Makers”.  Bart is mostly made of magic.

Lilac is an artist, educator, and mother of Iron Spider and Artistic Axolotl.  Since her time as a kindergarten teacher, she’s served as school librarian, art teacher, and language teacher at Upland Hills School.  She is beloved wife to Moon, and recently blew everyone’s minds with her 2028 vision for STA.

Wolf is a public relations consultant, professional coach, and energy medicine practitioner, mother of Fantastic Fred and Creative Gremlin Lemur. After her time as a broadcast journalist in Chicago, she cofounded River Strategies, a public affairs and public relations firm working with clients to navigate and bring change to some of the toughest environments and systems, including education, infrastructure design, and food systems.  Her firm has worked with school districts and organizations on crisis management and support, and she sees STA on the preventive side of solving our current mental health epidemic.

The Synergyzer is a community organizer, activist, philanthropist, program leader, and author of instructional guides on fatherhood, equity, and community change.  He serves as Executive Director for GreenLight Fund Detroit and is co-founder of the Detroit Marriage & Fatherhood Fund.  Whether it’s leveraging resources, mobilizing thousands of volunteers, or facilitating change in Detroit and across the globe, he’s championed economic opportunity, safety net services, youth leadership, and social justice initiatives throughout his life.  His deep love for neighborhoods inspired STA to move into Detroit in 2013 with place based initiatives that build on the legacy of creating beloved communities.

Moon is an educator, experience architect, and humanitarian clown, stepfather of Iron Spider and Artistic Axolotl.  Moon has integrated 25 years of experiments and nearly 1000 kids, creating magical experiences with inner city kids, indigenous communities, affluent school districts, with neighborhoods and therapy clinics, in the wilderness and business worlds, including most recently as a xylophone playing alien inspiring dance parties on a spooky trail.  On his recent #44 birthday, he made a promise to recommit to the soul thread of sacred clowning in his life and invited God to work through with him and bring to life a “cosmic clown” for wonder, joy, and reality.  

Sunplanter is a lifelong educator, interfaith organizer, and mental health advocate who currently serves as a Master Teacher at Harms Elementary School in Detroit where he coaches teachers and teaches 5th grade. He was a Spanish bilingual educator and trainer for nine years in Chicago Public Schools and taught 5th and 6th grade at Covington Middle School in Birmingham.  He is a National Board Certified teacher and served as the Michigan Teacher of the Year in 2016.  His family has welcomed 10 international exchange students over the years, living committed to bridging differences for a better world.

Does anyone know this guy?  Word on the street, throughout the woods, and in the oceans is that if aliens come to our planet, we should send him as one of the humans to find common ground.  Maybe it’s because he swam with whale sharks to protect their breeding grounds or because he blocked a pipeline dressed as a baby wood duck.  He finds his time in between milking goats, cracking secret codes in IFS therapy, and finding other sources of cosmic energy to feed the planet devouring Galactus.   Because he’s committed to collective liberation, he must be getting Thanos, the Greedy Goblin, and Voldemort to the potluck soon.