Sharyon Anita Culberson has a background creating content dedicated to social justice, as well as facilitating and moderating conversations that promote a more egalitarian society. She has developed and presented programming on DE&I, anti-bias, micro-aggressions, and reducing sexual violence to universities, corporations, all five branches of the U.S. armed forces, and to the U.S. House of Representatives.

As an actor, Sharyon has has appeared on stages across the country, most recently appearing as ‘Britney’ on “The Chi”. She has also co-starred on “Chicago PD”, “Chicago Fire”, “The Big Leap,” and “Proven Innocent’. She has been in a number of Independent films over the last few years - one of which won the “Best Sci-Fi” award for the HollyShorts Film Festival.

Sharyon’s main area of expertise and interest is writing and performing content that creates emotional connection through storytelling, to introduce perspectives of overlooked and marginalized societies with the goal of increasing empathy. Her first feature project, ”Black Joy Always Wins” has already been named a quarter-finalist in Emerging Screenwriters’ Sci-Fi/Fantasy feature competition, and her short film screenplay “Daughters” is a semi-finalist for the “Honey Writes” screenplay competition.