Dagan has dedicated his career to telling inspiring stories. He is an Emmy® Award-winning film director and producer. He graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with his Bachelor of Arts in both music and mass communications with a degree emphasis on filmmaking and storytelling. In 2020, Dagan and his production team produced the Emmy®Award-Winning documentary feature film, Songbirds, which is distributed on Amazon Prime and Peacock through Gravitas Venture Films. Dagan has traveled and collaborated with filmmakers and creatives around the world. His films have played at film festivals in Cannes, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta, Nashville, and more. Dagan currently serves as founder and executive producer for the Beckett Arts Project.

Ann has been involved with the arts her entire life, graduating from Converse College with a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance and a Master’s Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After teaching for nine years, she had a 20-year career in radio and television sales and marketing. Prior to her retirement from the public television station, Ann received an Emmy® award in 2016 as a coordinating producer for the the documentary feature film, From the Streets to the Stage: The Journey of Fredrick Davis which has received global acclaim as part of the PBS arts programming.  In 2020, Ann co-produced a freelance documentary, Be Like Brit, that aired on ABC affiliate stations in Boston and South Florida. The film commemorated the 10th anniversary of the building of an orphanage in Grande Guave, that arose from the ashes of the Haitian earthquake in 2010. In addition to international travels, she enjoys writing, and has published a children’s book, Charlotte’s Lost Water Bottle, with another one, Mysterious Light in the Fairy Forest, ready for publication. Ann currently serves as an executive producer for the Beckett Arts Project.

Irving is a musician who contributed two songs to the soundtrack of the indie film "Wired" in 2006. In recent years he was hired to help open and run the Songbirds Guitar Museum in Chattanooga which only lasted three years and due to the Covid pandemic was forced to close in August of 2020. It was at that point that he met a local filmmaker named Dagan Beckett and the the idea for the Songbirds Documentary organically began. Irving currently serves as an executive producer for the Beckett Arts Project.

Behavioral Health CFO. Interest in music, performing arts. Expertise in sacred music, financials. Influence with: business relations, organizational management. efitch@gmail.com

Former Programmer at WTCI/PBS. Expertise in communications, TV media, community outreach. Influence with: film/Media, arts.
pcarpenter@epbfi.com

Senior Accountant at Chattanooga Area Food Bank. Expertise in bookkeeping, expense management, arts nonprofit boards. Influence with: Business development, community relations.
lmcdowd1992@hotmail.com

Senior Accountant at Urban League of Chattanooga, Inc. Expertise in financials, languages–English, Spanish, sign language– acting, spoken word. Influence with: business, arts nonprofits.
kyree.brown96@gmail.com

Theatre maker, educator, teacher of theater and piano at the Chattanooga Preparatory School, writer of music and lyrics of Giant Steps, an Urban Musical.
mrmichaeldexter@gmail.com

Videographer and content creation-AppliancePartsPro, owner Lonely Boiz Production. Influence with film/media.
tyrisshane@gmail.com

President AdventHealth Gordon Foundation. Expertise in marketing and communications. Influence with community outreach.
garrett.nudd@gmail.com

Spanish teacher at McCallie School. Founder of Cultural Value Leadership Institute. Expertise in language; PHD in Leadership Research promoting the use of technology as a vehicle for intercultural development. Influence with education and multi-cultural understanding and community development.
vherrera@leadinculture.org

Attorney, Copeland Stair Valz & Lovell. Expertise in commercial and construction practices. Influence with business, legal.
mwayne@csvl.com

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