"In order to harvest, you have to plant.
What seeds are you planting in your own life?"
"Journey Agent: an intuitive guide, pathfinder and
facilitator of empowerment and insight for the journey
from where you are to where you would like to be."
Ryan Coogler's film is the topic of the moment — an aesthetic roadmap for enduring these trying times. One of the many things I love about this film is its perfect timing. What's happening to the country has us on an emotional knife edge. Now here comes something ancient and powerful to remind us who we are.
May 2025Notable African American expats include Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois and Barbara Chase-Riboud. The tradition of leaving in order to fully arrive is long and worthy.
July 2025Years ago, I experienced a bout of depression that sent me on the hunt for a therapist. I found one — but I was not telling her the real truth. Something prevented me from opening up.
May 2025Curated by the Artistic Director of the March on Washington Film Festival — short films that illuminate the human condition in under 30 minutes.
Explore films →From James Baldwin to contemporary memoir — the books Isisara reads, returns to, and presses into the hands of everyone she meets.
Browse books →On live performance, why theatre is one of the last communal acts, and the plays she believes everyone should experience at least once.
Read reviews →"I am at some kind of crossroads, and I don't know but can sense what is on the other side."
A woman at a threshold. Former VP at Sony Music. Artistic Director of the March on Washington Film Festival. TEDx speaker. And now, somewhere between what was and what is becoming — writing honestly about aging, departure, and what comes next.
Read her storyFrom the halls of Congress to the stages of TEDx, from the film festival circuit to the streets of Marrakech — Isisara Bey has spent a lifetime at the intersection of culture, power, and people.
The work has always been about the same thing: helping people see where they are, and find their way to where they're meant to be.
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