Khalil Sullivan is an Oakland,CA-based PhD holding musician, songwriter, educator who develops ideas that center BIPOC-stories with music. Together with Dr. Amma Ghartey Y. Tagoe-Kootin and Dr. Joshua Williams he is developing a stage-musical and television series about the experience of Black lives at the 1901 world’s fair in Buffalo, NY where President William McKinley was infamously assassinated. Additionally, he is the managing founder of the Oakland, CA-based band, MAD NOISE whose last album “For My Mother” was inspired by the band’s tour of West Africa with the US State Department’s American Music Abroad program.