Action Team
Jessyca Holland – Executive Director
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Jessyca has worked as an arts administrator for over six years in Atlanta. Before joining the world of nonprofit arts administration, Jessyca was an independent actor performing in Greater Atlanta. In 2007, Jessyca participated in the Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative, a multi-city program for emerging nonprofit leaders. Jessyca has a strong interest in research and information literacy, as well as a strong interest in art as a learning tool for building literacy efficacy among school children and adults. In her spare time she performs with the local improv troupe, Your Mom’s Mom, hangs out with her two beautiful daughters, wonderful husband, three dogs, some chickens and a cat. Jessyca earned her B.A. in Theatre in 2000 from the University of West Georgia, and Masters of Library Media in 2009 from Georgia State University.
Joe Winter – Chief Technology Officer
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Joe served as the IT Manager at the Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts for five years and Project Manager for Civic Strategies, a public policy consulting firm. Previous to that, Joe also worked as a third-tier customer support analyst at IBM, and served on the board of Citizens for Progressive Transit. Joe sings with the community chorus, Just Voices. He graduated from Georgia State University with a B.S. in Urban Policy Studies, concentrating on Planning and Economic Development; and a B.B.A. in Management.
Lyre’s primary professional focus is in the discovery of how cutting-edge emerging communications technologies can be utilized for social good. Lyre’s experience within the technology industry began through work for the Acceleration Studies Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to research and education around the implications of accelerating technological change. Through this experience within the field of professional futurism, Lyre became involved in organizing various non-profit and academic projects within and around the virtual world of Second Life: The most exciting project during this time being a tech industry roadmap document called the ‘Metaverse Roadmap Project.’ Later, Lyre served as Communications Architect for Concept Hub, an Atlanta-based social media consulting firm.