Ricky Wyatt, “The Ricker,” is a bassist, performer, comic book author, long time Prince fan and a disciple of the MPLS sound. A native of Atlanta, GA, currently living in Richmond, VA. Ricky leads the jazz-funk unit “SoWhut?!” and the R&B unit “Footprints.” A graduate of Virginia State University’s Department of Political Science, and a student of Prince’s purple grooves since ’79, Ricky teaches History at the Binford Middle Arts & Integration Program for Richmond Public Schools and maintains an active performance schedule.

Mila Asha is a dedicated member of the Next Power Generation, willing to do the work to learn and explore all that the world of Prince has to offer and finding ways to keep Prince’s legacy alive!

Chris Aguilar García (he/they) is a Queer Chicanx writer and editor from Thornton, Colorado. Discovering Prince in 1982 via 1999, they were mesmerized by this male-presenting artist who so expertly defied conventional gender norms while incidentally producing, arranging, composing, and performing the baddest, sexiest, most funky work they had ever heard! Thus began a lifelong journey of following the music, art, and meaning of Prince.

They have presented work on the queerness of Prince at the Purple Reign and Prince from MPLS conferences, and at national and regional gatherings of the Popular Culture Association.

A graduate of Antioch University Los Angeles, they hold an extensive career in community minded organizations, currently as Director of Operations at Queer Asterisk Therapeutic Services.

Chinisha Scott is an Emmy Award-winning, multi-hyphenate creator with nearly 20 years of experience in film, TV, and media production. She is passionate about music, science, environmental and social justice, and learning – they find their way into all that she creates.

She began her musical training at the age of nine and continued through grad school, with a brief stint as an engineering major in her freshman year of college. (She had Mae Jemison dreams of becoming an astronaut – here’s hoping they need filmmakers in space). Currently, her handiwork can be seen as a Segment Director at The Daily Show (Comedy Central).

Chinisha is a certified Prince super-fam, nerdy geek-girl, and cheerful nihilist with a penchant for witty, sometimes self-deprecating humor. She attended The New School, where she received her MA in Media Studies and a BA in Cinema Studies with a minor in African-American Studies from the CUNY Macaulay Honors College, cum laude.

Casey Rain is an internationally renowned songwriter, performer and musician known for his work with pioneering British Asian collective Swami. Swami have released albums on Sony/BMG, EMI and Universal Records, and their songs have featured in popular movies, video games and TV shows including both seasons of the Netflix hit series “Indian Matchmaking.” 

Casey is also the co-founder of The Violet Reality. Along with Kim Camilia, they are a collective of musicians, artists, YouTubers, bloggers and content creators. Through their website and YouTube channel they are amongst the leading commentators on the life and career of Prince Rogers Nelson. Having been profiled in The New York Times, BBC and Consequence Of Sound amongst others, they have to date been the leading channel covering the posthumous releases from The Prince Estate, including working with Penguin Random House to promote Prince’s memoir, The Beautiful Ones, being granted media passes to officially cover the Celebration events at Paisley Park, and appearing as panelists at Celebration 2023.

Anil Dash is recognized advocate for more humane, inclusive, and ethical technology through his work as an entrepreneur, activist, and writer, honored by the Webby Awards with its lifetime achievement award in 2022. Today, he leads Fastly’s Developer Experience team, which provides the tools that the world’s most innovative developers use to build experiences that make the internet better for billions of users every day. Dash joined Fastly with its acquisition of Glitch in 2022, where he served as CEO of the friendly coding community beloved by millions of developers.

Dash also serves as a board member for organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the pioneering nonprofit organization defending digital privacy and expression, The Markup, the leading nonprofit investigative newsroom pushing for tech accountability, and the Lower East Side Girls Club, which serves girls and families in need in New York City. Previously, Dash was an advisor to the Obama White House’s Office of Digital Strategy, was co-chair of the Obama Foundation’s tech advisory council, served for a decade on the board of Stack Overflow, the world’s largest community for coders, and was a founding board member of the Data & Society Research Institute, which researches the cutting edge of tech’s impact on society. Today, he continues to advise respected startups and non-profits including DonorsChoose, Medium, The Human Utility, and Project Include. In 2009, he led a MacArthur-backed research project carrying out pioneering research on social media’s impact on public policy making. And, during his tenure as CEO of Glitch, the company became the first tech startup ever to voluntarily recognize its workers’ union.

Described by The New Yorker as a “blogging pioneer”, and by the New York Times as a “Prince scholar”, his personal website has been cited in hundreds of newspapers, academic papers and journals. As a writer and artist, Dash was a contributing editor and monthly columnist for Wired, has written for publications including The Atlantic, Rolling Stone and Businessweek, co-created one of the first implementations of the technology now known as NFTs, had his work exhibited in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and collaborated with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on one of the most popular Spotify playlists of 2018.

Back when Twitter was relevant, Time named @anildash one of the best accounts on Twitter, and he is the only person ever retweeted by both Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Prince, a succinct summarization of Dash’s interests. Dash has also been a keynote speaker and guest in a broad range of media and events ranging from the Aspen Ideas Festival to Desus and Mero’s late-night show, and has guested on a surprisingly large number of your favorite podcasts.

Dash is based in New York City, where he lives with his wife Alaina Browne and their son Malcolm. Like most people, he has never played a round of golf, drank a cup of coffee, filed a patent, or graduated from college.