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Episode #17 Straight Talking with Kelly- Thomas Robert Simpson, actor, director, producer, writer, and the founder and artistic director of AfroSolo Theatre Company.

Join me and my guests Thomas Robert Simpson talk about his 26th Annual AfroSolo Arts Festival of Black Voices: Our Stories, Our Lives in a two-program format.

About Thomas Robert Simpson
website: events.afrosolo.org
email: thomas@afrosolo.org
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Thomas Robert Simpson, actor, director, producer, photographer, and writer, is the founder and artistic director of the AfroSolo Theatre Company. Since 1994 he has concentrated on presenting Black art and culture through solo performances and the visual and literary arts. For the past twenty-five years, Simpson has produced the award-winning AfroSolo Arts Festival. He has also produced jazz concerts, organized community health fairs, hosted educational forums, conducted numerous workshops, and sat on funding panels for the California Arts Commission, the Center for Cultural Innovation, Oakland's Arts Council, and San Francisco's Arts Commission.

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Kelly Armstrong has more than 25 years of experience in public relations and image consulting. As the founder of Artist Development/Imagemaking, Armstrong enjoys helping people “be their best, by looking and feeling their best” in body and spirit by giving advice about skincare, makeup, grooming, overall personal appearance, presentation skills, and job readiness training, she also teaches Image Consulting at City College of San Francisco. Armstrong has worked with KKSF Radio, partnered with the Plant Recording Studio and stores like Wilkes Bashford, she has dressed artists for album covers and videos she has freelanced as a makeup artist with clients that included CBS 5 (KPIX), San Francisco’s Mayor Willie Brown, and taught makeup classes through CCSF Extended Education Program. Faz Restaurants, Marriott Marquis Hotel, Chevron, Renaissance Entrepreneurial Center, Independent Living, Brookside Hospital, and San Francisco Unified School District, and others have also benefited from Armstrong’s public relations and image consulting expertise.

Working in the underserved Bayview Hunter’s Point neighborhood in San Francisco, Armstrong is the Founder of the Primed & Prepped: A Hospitality Management/Culinary Arts Mentoring and Job Training Program at the Bayview Hunters Point YMCA. The purpose of the program is to help mitigate the barriers to employment for young males and females of color. Formerly on San Francisco State University’s Hospitality Management Advisory Board, she chaired the PR Committee, she was a part of the Program Advisory Committee (PAC) with SAE Expression Media College. Armstrong has previously served as a Board of Governors with the Recording Academy, she created and co-chaired the Urban Outreach Committee of the Recording Academy (a.k.a. The Grammys) and she was an inaugural member of KQED’s Community Advisory Panel. She has volunteered with The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI). Armstrong is married, resides in San Francisco, and has a passion for food, fashion, and music.