Matthew, co-founder of Majestic Collaborations, Majestic Amplifications, and Majestic Water is a festival coordinator, artistic director, spokesperson, musician, and community leader. His consulting work with Performing Arts Readiness spans agencies, festivals and venues in emergency and disaster preparedness. Contracted by Denver Arts & Venues, the Canadian Government, brands like New Belgium, and festivals like Tour de Fat, and Five Points Jazz Festival, he has organized hundreds of gatherings since 2005, collectively raising over $5 million to raise awareness and resources to capitalize locally-directed initiatives and inspire advocacy. A passionate skill-sharer, Matthew has used collective leadership to arrive at state-of-the-art festivals that are sustainable, safe, and equitable. A recovering marketer with a knack for initiating and identifying trends; he envisioned the experiential learning platform Art of Mass Gatherings Symposium as a way to catalyze emergency preparedness training across multiple stakeholders.

Molly North co-founded Majestic Collaborations to directly participate in community resilience work. She believes the resilience of a community is enhanced through effective preparation, mitigation, response and recovery, all of which can be enhanced by a strong art community. And when a community elevates artists and starts to more highly value the contributions of artists, they enhance the ability of their community to be more resilient. Molly is also the co-founder of Majestic Amplifications and Majestic Water.

Molly is also a progressive transportation leader. She has her Master of Engineering degree and has developed a unique set of technical, policy, and planning skills as well as expertise in communication and collaboration. She believes active transportation is essential to solving issues such as the climate crisis, environmental racism, and declining mental and physical health outcomes.

Jenny Filipetti is an artist and creative technologist working at the intersection of technology, wayfinding, and participatory design. She first connected with Majestic Collaborations while serving on the faculty of Inworks at the University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus, an interdisciplinary initiative addressing complex human challenges through human-centered design and rapid prototyping.

Now based in Milan, her studio CHROMAKAIROS develops interactive technologies that bridge physical and digital worlds. She has created interactive experiences for cultural institutions including Palazzo Morando and Palazzo Reale, led mapping and innovation projects for a variety of universities, and developed online platform for her home neighborhood of Stadera to encourage discovery and encounter with the people and places that make it unique.

With Majestic Collaborations, Jenny develops the participatory processes and learning frameworks that power our work at scale. As architect of the ACRA mapping methodology and ReadyWhen framework, she builds survey tools, assessments, and training resources that bridge operational languages and educational scaffolds between emergency management systems and event production practices.

Jessica Wallach is the accessibility lead for the Art of Mass Gatherings. Her goal is to reimagine space as a love letter to the body through her art and accessibility consultant. As a photographer and educator with a cerebral palsy, her work is deeply rooted in the body, accessibility, and disability. She has been working on accessibility in one way or another for almost 40 years.

Jessica has a degree in city and regional planning, worked at the Department of Justice and has been working as a professional photographer and educator for the last 17 years. Accessibility is the lens she sees everything through, it is the apex of her perspective. She has collaborated with Majestic Collaborations by taking the lead on all things accessibility, creating participatory documentation projects, producing videos, and spearheading proposal writing for conference sessions. What we love most about her is her deep questions and her perspective on inclusivity. Her most recent project is called The Body is Good #theBIGproject and she is inviting people to create works that take a stand against ableism. Follow it on Instagram.

Bertrand Evans-Taylor is the Director of Government Affairs at Dance/USA, with over a decade of experience in strategic event planning, community building, and cultural marketing in the arts sector. He is also the founder of Ujima Cultural Solutions, an arts-based social enterprise in Charleston, SC, leading initiatives to support Black artists, build equitable arts ecosystems, and center community voices in creative placemaking. His work reflects a strong commitment to justice-centered engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration.

At Majestic Collaborations, he brings his expertise as a community engagement specialist and marketer. Bertrand is committed to elevating Black and Brown artists, which exemplifies his passion for community engagement in the arts.

Bertrand holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Digital Marketing from Purdue Global University, an M.A. in Arts and Culture Management from the University of Denver, and a certificate in Social Difference, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from the University of Pennsylvania.