Team
Angell Foster
Creator/Producer; JOS, INC
she/her
Oakland, CA
Angell is a multi-hyphenate, with a passion for stories that center BIPOC womxn, no matter the medium. Angell is someone who loves un/learning about all the things but is recovering from a self-help book addiction currently.
Walking is her preferred method of transportation. She is a fungi enthusiast and new to the world of foraging for food. She is a lover of community and the planet.
Angell holds a Bachelor of Science in Art from Fisk University and the student loans to prove it.
Kylee Roberts
Media Coordinator & Producer; JOS, INC and The Underbelly
she/her
Brooklyn, NY
Kylee is a multimedia producer and creative who gives voices to those without a platform. As a native New Yorker and Pisces cry-baby, she has watched the artist landscape change, and is excited to further engage with and produce more radical forms of expression.
She has previously developed and executed communications content for all digital platforms for the Lower Eastside Girls Club, and produced the Queer comedy web-series Big Egg. Outside of ‘work’ you can find her blasting 90s R&B while laughing with friends in Brooklyn and making a charcuterie board or mezcal cocktail.
Montez Mickles
Director of Production; JOS, INC and The Underbelly
he/him
Oakland, CA
Montez, a fiery Sagittarius (Gemini Moon, Libra Rising) hailing from Nashville, TN has a love for music, technology, the Stars, and the Moon. He enjoys skateboarding, video games, and is a cannabis connoisseur (Sativa-Dominant-Hybrid for him, please). A realistic optimist, Montez is a dedicated problem solver who knows how to get whatever the job is done. He has a B.B.A in Supply Chain from Tennessee State University, almost 10 years of experience working in the restaurant biz, and a background in planning and executing productions.
Friday Anderson
Video Editor
they/them
Brooklyn, NY
Friday Anderson is a trans, brooklyn based writer, editor, and director with a passion for bringing authentic queer stories to the mainstream. Getting their start as the creator, writer, and editor of Big Egg, a queer comedy webseries, Friday has since collaborated on numerous film projects all with a similar mission. Currently they are preparing for the debut of their production company, Fruit House Films. As a founding member, they couldn’t be more confident in the team and their unified mission to amplify fresh voices, lead with love, and cultivate radical collaboration. Outside of work, you can find them skateboarding (and falling) around brooklyn, watching murder documentaries with their cat Francis, or making Tik Tok’s for their nearly 50K followers. Follow them @fridayisfunky
Sami Housman
Jessamyn’s Manager, Melrose Placed
she/her
Los Angeles, CA
Sami is an 6ft tall, Aries sun and native New Yorker turned Cali convert. Sami Housman is a manager, producer, and consultant driven to use media as a means for positive social impact. She founded Melrose Placed in 2017 to create space for authentic people and stories to push beyond perceived boundaries and to encourage unique and unexpected voices to seize opportunities. By placing characters and content first, their projects explore unexpected perspectives and universal truths with openness and curiosity — shattering assumptions in the process. She is a producer of the award winning docuseries Deaf U on Netflix and producer on the Oscar contender Audible. She has ongoing projects in development with Universal, Netflix, Spectrum and other partners.
With over a decade in the entertainment industry, Sami began her career as an agent trainee and assistant at United Talent Agency, then as a talent agent at CESD Talent Agency. She was recognized in 2016 as an impactful industry figure in Variety’s Power of Youth for her work with top emerging talent. She received a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Radio, Television, and Film and Gender Studies.
She is a certified yoga teacher and Underbelly devotee and never without one hand in a bag of potato chips (Boulder Canyon Kettle Chips with Avocado Oil for the win!).
Shi’Anna Whitman
Video Editor/Producer
she/her
Los Angeles, CA
Shi’Anna Whitman was born in Bryan, Ohio where from a young age she started a business raising her own goat herd to stay busy. She soon became heavily involved in the American Dairy Goat Association Professional Show circuit where she would breed, trade and sell her goats to top showmen to increase her bloodline and turn a profit. She used her earnings to help fund her college education where she recently graduated from Calvin University with a BA in film production and a business marketing minor. Since graduating, Shi’Anna continues to use her enterprising nature that she learned from her pioneer days to excel at starting up and carrying out new projects – particularly in media as a videographer and editor. In her free time she enjoys making music with her midi keyboard, oil painting, and singing – most recently to the In the Heights soundtrack. Celine Dion will always be her number one though.
Tiffani Jones
Accounting Manager
she/her
Raleigh, NC
Tiffani was born & raised in Detroit Michigan, one of 6 children on both sides of the family (mother’s & father’s side). She is a Scorpio who loves the water (but it doesn’t love my hair lol). She has a bachelors in Accounting from North Carolina Central University with 6 years of experience that consist of non-profit and entrepreneur accounting, audits, and 990 tax preparation. Future endeavors are obtaining her CPA license and Master’s degree. She enjoys movies & music of all genres except heavy metal & bluegrass music, tried listening but couldn’t get far. She will get into a good book if recommended and not boring or slow moving stories. She loves to laugh, it is food for the soul all the time, and good food is always a plus for her. She will try anything once, within reason. If she isn’t working, you can find her spending time with 2 of her 3 children. Whether it be reading, watching anime, movies or hitting the road, she tries to keep her boys busy while her oldest is out doing what 20yr olds do: navigating her freedom while doing nails.
Tiffani says: “If I don’t know the answer to something, I will go find it. I believe in self reflection in order to continue to be the best version of oneself.”
Get in Touch with me
Press and Publicity by Conscious Living PR
mona@consciouslivingpr.com
Agent: CAA, Manager: Melrose Placed
For Partnerships, Speaking, and all other inquiries:
admin@jessamynstanley.com
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