Megan Bartley, Occupational Therapist & Baker
“I am a big dreamer and I do believe in the power of dreams. I want to give others that opportunity as well.”
Read January’s chat with Megan Bartley, “Baking & Dreaming Big.”
Jordan McCracken-Foster, Concept Artist
“What inspires me is the little version of me. I’ve always wanted to be an artist; since I was six years old, I wanted to do art. I didn’t know how I was going to do it, how I was going to get there, but I never had a Plan B.”
Terry Kole, Illustrator & Teacher
“I’ll say yes to a job and then I’ll look up at Him and say, ‘I don’t know how to do this. Can you help me? Help my eyes to see and my hands to create what my eyes have taken in.'”
Read March’s chat with Terry Kole, “Building a Legacy of ‘Yes’.”
Kiara Hicks, Gospel Singer
“My focus is on God and people my age. I want to see them blessed. I want to see them prosper. I use my life to do that. Speaking and singing about my story—God is my story.”
Read April’s chat with Kiara Hicks, “A Bigger-Than-Me Experience.”
Theda Tann, Dabbling Doodler
“My hope is that by doing so, by creating more and making more space for others, that I would be able to find more connections and even forge communities for other younger Southeast Asian Christian justice-oriented creators.”
Josiah “Jazz” Watts, Artist & Activist
“As artists, we have an obligation to help people to not only see things in the world but to think about them.”
Read June’s chat with Josiah Watts, “Crafting Conduits for Change.”
Kathryn “Pilgrim Kat” Hediye, YouTuber
“I don’t need to achieve or prove anything to the world. I can create for the joy of it. I can work for the joy of it. No matter what I do or don’t do, I’m completely secure in God.”
Read July’s chat with Pilgrim Kat, “Nurturing a Slower Life.”
Jane Wyatt Walters, Speaker & Author
“There are so many people who have written, so many titles that are out there already. Why another one? I can’t answer that, except that God is saying of me, and I’m saying of myself harnessed with Him, ‘I’m a writer.'”
Mikaela Carrillo, Public Health BA & Writer
“I’m learning to accept that [being Latina in the US] a spectrum of unique experience, that doesn’t nullify my perspectives or thoughts or experiences. The art of shame-breaking is writing about it; it comes with it instead of before it.”
Read September’s chat with Mikaela Carrillo, “Finding Identity in Writing.”
