Team — THIS BELONGS TO US

Atinuke Diver

Director/Producer

Grounded in the spirit of Charles Hamilton Houston’s adage that a lawyer is either a social engineer or a social parasite, Atinuke “Tinu” Akintola Diver grounds her creative, legal, and community practices in ways that seek to build and regenerate, rather than to purely extract and exploit. A first-generation American and the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Tinu was born in Boston, Massachusetts, raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland and currently resides with her family in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina School of Law, and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Tinu is Co-Director of the short documentary film QUILT JOURNEYS (2019 ALICE FEST, 2019 BlackStar Film Festival, 2019 Carrboro Film Festival, 2020 Hayti Heritage Film Festival, 2020 River Run Film Festival, 2020 Longleaf Film Festival, 2020 BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival), Co-Producer of the short audio documentary, MASTERPIECE, and Director/Producer of the documentary short 98 (2020 Carrboro Film Festival).

Writer

Ezra Baeli-Wang

Ezra is a speechwriter, poet, and essayist working in politics, AAPI leadership, and LGBTQ+ activism in athletics. His commitment and approach to writing stems from his experiences as a poet and the mixed-race child of a queer parent and a first-generation immigrant parent. He is the recipient of the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, and his writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best New Poets award.

Editor

Kameron Southerland

Kameron Southerland is a writer, producer, and court jester born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. Their observational humor aims to explore the funny to be found in the dark, melancholy, and bizarre. They earned an M.F.A. in TV & Screenwriting from Stephens College in 2023 and hold a B.A. in Media Production, Folklore, and Writing for the Screen and Stage from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

While in school at UNC, Kameron wrote and performed in sketches in the inaugural I Just Said That women and gender-expansive comedy showcase and produced a short film 'Good Egg' that she wrote and edited. In 2020, Kameron wrote and performed a sketch show entitled 'We're Taking This Very Seriously: The Middle School Talent Show We Never Had' with fellow UNC alum Shea Stanley.

Alongside writer and director Bruklyn Miller, Kameron is currently acting as producer on a web series in development, 'Shouts 2 Durm' - a surrealist exploration of the effects of gentrification on the city.

Production Assistant/Web Designer

Mara Guevarra

A digital storyteller with a background in cultural studies, Mara Guevarra graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.A. in Animation and Digital Arts and East Asian Area Studies, and from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea with a M.A. in Korean Studies through the Fulbright Program. After pursuing education outside of the Carolinas, she is grateful to be back at home, having been raised in Fayetteville and attended NCSSM in Durham. As the former Digital Marketing and Projects Manager at the Center of Documentary Studies, Mara is particularly interested in using immersive technology, speculative fiction, and animation to document the future and propose new realities.

Alongside Atinuke Diver, Mara is the other Co-Director of the short documentary film QUILT JOURNEYS (2019 ALICE FEST, 2019 BlackStar Film Festival, 2019 Carrboro Film Festival, 2020 Hayti Heritage Film Festival, 2020 River Run Film Festival, 2020 Longleaf Film Festival, 2020 BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival).

Intern

Lily Young-Gross

Lily Young-Gross is a director and recent graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), where she earned a B.F.A. in Film and Television. Her work centers on documentary storytelling and explores artists, communities, and the relationships that shape people’s lives.

Lily is drawn to observational filmmaking and stories that create connection and bring underrepresented perspectives to the screen. Based in New York City, she is continuing to develop her practice across directing, editing, and documentary production.

Social Media Specialist

stephanie grant

Stephanie Grant is a James Beard-nominated writer and content strategist who has been immersed in the craft beer industry since 2017. Based in Atlanta, she is the founder of She Loves Craft, a social media consultancy dedicated to helping breweries and beer brands tell better stories online. Her writing has appeared in CraftBeer.com, Good Beer Hunting, and The New Brewer, and she has worked with brands including Monday Night Brewing, Allagash, and Good Beer Hunting. Stephanie draws on a background in information design, UX, and technical writing to help brewery social media managers move from guessing to knowing—building content strategies rooted in clarity and connection. When she's not deep in strategy work, she's probably reading, hanging with her dog, or hunting down a great Czech Dark Lager somewhere in Atlanta.