Kiana Jackson grew up on the East Side of San Jose before attending Clark Atlanta University, earning a degree in speech communication and theater arts and moving into stage and event management. After working in regional corporate event leadership across the country, the onset of the 2020 pandemic brought her back home to channel her corporate expertise into the family business…

Pantea Karimi’s upbringing in Iran was colored by a world of scriptures and saints. A schoolchild of the first post-revolution generation, the artist’s education in the Islamic state was …