EMBRACE IDEAS FESTIVAL 2023

Join us for our first ever Juneteenth Concert at The Embrace! We will celebrate together by gathering at The Embrace for the first time since the unveiling. The Embrace Choir along with other musical ensembles across the city will set the celebratory tone for us as we honor the national holiday and historical importance of Juneteenth.

theo tyson [who uses she/they pronouns] is a curator who invites conversations about the sociocultural implications of race, gender, identity, and sexuality through a lens of fashion, art, and culture. Their practice focuses on creating sartorial spaces of reclamation and authority to share the powerful stories of Black women and those on the LGBTQI+ spectrum.

Elle Simone Scott is a culinary maverick that has been dazzling the culinary world since 2006, quickly becoming a highly sought after freelance Food Stylist and Culinary Producer. Elle has collaborated and contributed her unique styling abilities to Food Network, Food Network Magazine, The Cooking Channel, The Katie Couric Show, CBS Corporation, ABC’s The Chew and Bravo's Chef Roble and Co.

American law professor, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, and best-selling author.

A conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture.

Principal at MASS Design Group and was the lead architect of the Embrace Memorial.

Jeneé Osterheldt is a culture columnist who covers identity and social
justice through the lens of culture and the arts. Her work centers Black
lives and the lives of people of color. She is also the creator of A
Beautiful Resistance, a multimedia series for The Boston Globe that
centers Black voices and celebrates Black Joy.

Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the landmark, The 1619 Project, now a Hulu original docuseries.

Join us for our first ever Juneteenth Concert at The Embrace!

Latoyia Edwards is an Emmy Award-winning anchor on NBC 10 Boston and necn.

A well-respected thought and innovation leader, Dr. Lee Pelton was named as a Living Legend by the Boston Museum of African American History in 2021 and inducted by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce into its Academy of Distinguished Bostonians in 2020.