Joia has coached more than 50 C-Suite executives and scheduled, written, and coached twelve TEDx Talks (including her own) with two more to present in Fall 2020. She has also written and coached Congressional and City Council testimony for DC government agencies and human rights groups. Joia has been on the leadership teams at NBC, CBS, C-SPAN, and BET, working as a senior producer, anchor, reporter, and host. She spent a decade creating communications strategies for their human rights work and traveling throughout the US, Europe, Africa, and South America on their behalf.

Erika is a Media Developer and Podcast Producer. She flexes her creative muscles developing and executing multimedia experiences across platforms where she weaves words, music, graphics, videos, actors, visual artwork, and storylines together to create memorable experiences.  She has been having a wonderful time with the team at MLPI working on content creation, video and audio production, website design, and visual marketing strategies.

Her company, Imagine Alley Digital, sees her full background in Directing, Photography, and Video which helps influence all of her design decisions whether she’s working with Wounded Veterans, Street Artists in New York City, or Production Managing Animation and Comic Book projects with Black Light Visions.  

Professionally Karim Ali currently holds the responsibility of Chief Executive and Relationship Officer of a national community development organization.  By passion he is an organizer and leader of diverse teams of media professionals and practitioners of social innovation.   Karim’s accountabilities lie at the intersection of non-traditional social science and media expressionism.  Formally trained in aeronautical sciences, Karim is an alumni of Howard University and holds a Masters of Independent Media Distinction.  He has also completed Landmark International’s Curriculum for Living, as well as advanced Senior Executive and Organizational Development training.

Samuel Shareef is a Senior Economic Development Officer for the Muslim Life Planning Institute. He along with MLPI executive team members Abdul Karim Ali and Linda Howard are co-creators as well as executive producers of Profound Conversations. Samuel is a Radio, Television, and Film management graduate of the University of Kansas, William Allen White School of Journalism. He is also a graduate of the University of Kansas Business School. His post-graduate work includes completing the 1997Bank of America sponsored Leadership and Management Initiative for Community-Based Development, Baltimore, Maryland.

 Career experiences include a decade of Commercial Real Estate Property & Asset Management, Public Relations Senior Executive, and Community Economic Development Consultant in Limestone Creek, Lake Worth, West Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, South Bay, Belle Glade and Delray Beach, Florida.