CEO AND FOUNDER

Ben Wilson is the CEO and Founder of Color of Sound. He has recently retired from a 30-year career in digital health and healthcare IT. Ben now serves on four additional nonprofit boards, including President of the Board at Climate Action Pathways for Schools, and Board Member for the Jefferson Land Trust, The Jefferson County Farmers Market, and the Olympic Housing Trust. Ben lives in Port Townsend with his wife Suzanne and his adult children live in Seattle. Ben graduated with a degree in Political Science from Stanford and both an MBA and a Master’s in Public Health from UC Berkeley.

BOARD MEMBER

Keith Coleman is an Advisory Scholar with mediaX at Stanford University, an interdisciplinary thought leadership and industry affiliate program focused on transformational learning experiences. His service targets intercultural equity and excellence in education reform, progressive healthcare solutions, racial justice and social finance. A former chief strategy officer at a think tank, Keith informs cognitive behavioral practices that promote human performance and well-being in industry, academia, and sport.

Keith earned a degree in Economics from Stanford University and his Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is Vice Chair of Advocacy for the Black Mental Health Task Force, a Collaborator with Rutgers Law School Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity, Board Member of Climate Action Pathways for Schools, and an Associate Member of the Meharry National Alumni Association.

BOARD MEMBER

Sultana Harris is a New Orleans based curator, arts consultant, and body psychotherapist. Her professional interests foreground ecosystems and ecologies, and internal and external landscapes at the intersections of culture, somatics, and the psyche. She has curated and produced projects of large scale public art, horticulture, and film. Sultana has also participated as both presenter and panelist at arts conferences and professional development and cultural adaptation workshops. As an arts consultant, Sultana engages in work which nurtures and advocates for staff and artist care when advancing curatorial and museological objectives in spaces identifying as institutions of  culture and heritage. Her background in anthropology and cultural resource management allows her to articulate and navigate the precarity of solidarity and collaboration while exploring Black creative processes in  the visual and performing arts. 

Sultana has worked with organizations such as Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Xavier University of New Orleans’ Department of Psychology, the Gulf Coast Fellowship for Community Transformation (funded by the Ford Foundation), and the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs. Sultana stands in solidarity with the land, its travelers, and all earth-others. 

BOARD MEMBER

Cameron Jones (He/Him) is an embodied mindfulness facilitator & practitioner, community organizer, and social and racial justice advocate with Usawa Consulting. In addition to his Board Member of Color of Sound, Cameron is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Jefferson County/Well-Organized, serves on the Port Townsend Food Co-op Board and the city of Port Townsend’s Equity, Access & Rights Advisory Committee.

BOARD MEMBER

Anthony Tackett offers 25 years of storytelling and filmmaking expertise through his company, Abstract Media. An Evergreen Tacoma Alumni, and recently a Seattle Film Institute Master's degree recipient in film Producing; where he now teaches, Anthony has produced and shot documentaries, commercials, narratives, broadcast sports and teaches filmmaking in many settings. He serves as a Commissioner on the Seattle Film Commission, the founder of the Seattle Filmmakers of the African Diaspora, and the Director of the Board at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute in Seattle. He is always ready to do work with the community because it fills him with joy the most. While living the filmmaker life, he makes time to stand with his family after suffering heavy losses. Bouncing back, he is determined to rise in the arts as a storyteller, a producer, professor, and a family man who loves God.

BOARD ADVISOR

Aaron Johnson is a Board Member of Color of Sound. He is also a public speaker, facilitator, and touch activist who practices closeness as a way to break down barriers between people. As co-founder of both Holistic Resistance and Grief to Action, Aaron takes the time to hold the stories of black people around homophobia, transphobia, internalized racism, and those who are Chronically Under-Touched. Aaron has created the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project — basic strategies to bring a black body from being Chronically UnderTouched to a state of touch balance — as part of the lifelong journey of interrupting oppressive systems that make touch balance a radical action.