Stephanie Xiomara Tinsley (She/Her) is a writer and filmmaker from Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts in 2020 with a BA in Film & TV and a minor in Art History. She has written for such publications as The Chicago Defender, BUST Magazine, An Injustice! Mag and more. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Black Sheep Collective, a private non-profit arts & humanities organization and digital media platform providing workshops, grants and resources to young artists and writers as they begin their creative careers. She believes in the transformative power of conscious artmaking and hopes that she, along with her peers, can build a more loving world through collaboration, communication and creativity.