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The JahWorks.org
Contributors:
 adebo thomas
Adebo Thomas, a native of Jamaica, migrated to the United States in 1994. With a degree in Philosophy and Art from the City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Thomas has pursued his passion for photography since 1997. As a fine art photographer and photojournalist, his accomplished work has ranged from published photo essays for Jahworks.org, Sam Magazine, and the Beat Magazine, to commissioned assignments by the City of Berkeley, Reggae of the River Festival, Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, Monterey Bay Reggae Festival, Raggamuffins’ Bob Marley Day Festival, and the Bob Marley Roots Rock and Reggae Festival. His worked has been displayed at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, New York; The Solano Stroll Arts Festival in Berkeley, California; and the Harambee Art Festival at The Artship Gallery at Jack London Square in Oakland, California. For high achievement in the discipline of photography, Thomas received the Charles G. Shaw Memorial Award in 1999. Children with developmental disabilities and international reggae superstars are his current photographic subjects. His portfolio can be seen on www.bluephobos.com. |
 adjua dubb
Adjua Dubb has been an advocate, promoter and writer
for Reggae music. She is an archivist and collector of the music, information
and all things related. She recently repatriated to The Gambia with her Gambian husband and children.
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 barbara makonnen blake hannah
Barbara Makonnen Blake Hannah is a Rastafari author, journalist and filmmaker. Her book "Rastafari - The New Creation" [Jamaican Media Productions, 1997], a 12-chapter thesis, was the first book on the religion written by a practising Rastafarian when it was first published in 1981. Her films include "Race, Rhetoric, Rastafari" made in 1983 for CHANNEL 4, UK as a personal document on race relations in Britain. She also writes regular opinion articles in the Jamaican and international media on Rastafari cultural, religious and political issues. |
 cecelia campbell-livingston
Cecilia has
been a practicising journalist for the past 13 years in Kingston,
Jamaica. She is employed full time at the XNews where she writes
features and entertainment and has a gospel column, ‘Take Five’. She is
the coordinator of the youth publication Teen Herald. An ardent
Christian, she attends the Church of God of Prophecy. |
 donovan longmore
Originally from Montego Bay, Jamaica, Donovan Longmore moved to Connecticut where he hosts a radio show on WFCS (Saturdays 2-4 pm) and another one on WESU 88.1 in Middletown, CT (Sundays 5-8 pm), both entitled "Reggae Voyage." The shows’ objective is to promote positive Reggae and give the listening audience what they want to hear. |
 heidi ogle
Heidi is a
fan, first and foremost. It was her love of the music that brought her
behind the scenes and into trailers at most of the Northern California
reggae festivals. She has worn many hats over the past 12 years, from
security and sound to publicity and production but most often she can
be found running around with a radio in one hand and a list in the
other. She is a human encyclopedia for all things Gentleman or Junior Gong-related. |
 justine ketola
Justine has been working in the music business since her
days as Promotions Director at her college radio station 21 years ago.
Currently, she is a freelance publicist, writer, booking agent, and sales
representative. She’s worked as the publicist and co-producer of the Trade
Roots 20th Anniversary Concert; and she joined the staff of the Ragga Muffins
festival as tour publicist in 2006. She’s a volunteer producer
at KPFK in Los Angeles for DJ
Chuck Foster’s radio show "Reggae Central." Her involvement with the
Reggae Festival Guide includes her post as an ad sales representative and she
edits their weekly e-newsletters. She has been a contributing writer for
Jahworks.org for the past three years and she also contributes to Carib Press
and The Beat. She is an 8-year member of Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide (#745). |
 laura gardner
Laura Gardner is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of www.jahworks.org and is known for her in-depth interviews with top international reggae artists. In addition to her journalistic contributions to various publications including The Beat, she has worked alongside the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, the Peter Tosh Foundation, the Monterey Bay Reggae Fest, San Francisco's Reggae in the Park, and Dreadstock in various capacities and can be reached at editor[AT]jahworks.org. |
 lee abel
Lee Abel first traveled to Jamaica in 1979 to photograph the Rastafarians. Her images since then have graced the covers of over 70 reggae albums, countless magazines and websites, and 2 editions of Lonely Planet's Guidebook to Jamaica. For more information, contact her at leeabel[AT]mindspring.com or www.reggaeportraits.com. |
 marlon regis
Mr. Marlon, "Musical Murder" columnist of The Beat Magazine for the last 8 years, is the dancehall reviews selector, as well as its annual guest editor for their dancehall issue. As a DJ under another alias, DJ Pelau, where's he's a resident selector on the rooftop of The Standard Hotel (downtown Los Angeles) weekly, his musical range is far beyond just dancehall and reggae. He's been a music consultant for DMX Music Inc for the past seven years for their REGGAE channel and URBAN BEAT/SEAN JOHN CUSTOM channel. Outside of the reggae world, he's a music columnist for Unleashed Magazine's "Sounds", and has been a past contributing writer to magazines such as Vibe, Rollingstone, The Source, Complex, Upscale and more if you can catch him! www.myspace.com/djpelau |
 michael kuelker
Michael Kuelker is Associate Professor of English at St. Charles Community College in St. Peters, Missouri, and a human rights activist who serves on the 4th R advisory board of Amnesty International USA’s Human Rights Education Program. He is also the editor of an oral history titled Book of Memory: A Rastafari Testimony, which is from CaribSound Ltd. and is available through Ernie B Reggae and Amazon.com. |
 monica espiritu
Monica writes music reviews and
contributes some of her online community experience to JahWorks.org. Unlike her fellow contributors, she’s a
reggae rookie having spent most of her life listening to R&B, funk, hip
hop, rock, and a bit of British ska. She
made some big shifts at midlife after giving up gigs pimping technology,
turning off her old soundtracks to life, and tuning in to more redeeming
music. Now, she’s a roots fan, works in
the HIV/AIDS community, and helps Laura G with several aspects of the
website. Monica resides in Oakland,
California, with King Tubby…the cat, not
the selector.
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nick fuller
Nick Fuller (a.k.a. #16) is a native of Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago. He
represented his high schools and Barataria Ball Players football club at the
U-14 and U-16 levels prior to leaving for Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA in 1993
where he trained with the embryonic Morehouse College Division 2 NCAA team for 2
years. Since living in NY (1997 - present) he has played the sport on a
non-competitve level with colleagues at Columbia University, IBM, and
the Trinidad and Tobago alumni society.
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nicola guthrie
Nicola Guthrie is Jahworks.org's promotions intern and first discovered the site
a couple of years ago while doing research on the Jah Cure case. She's Jamaican
by birth and passionate about reggae. With an M.A. in Communications and a B.A.
in English Literature, she has taught high school reading & English; and is
currently a Project Manager for a software development company. She can be
reached at intern at jahworks.org.
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 petra rebhorn
Petra Rebhorn is a freelance photographer and graphic designer for Jahworks.org. She is from Germany and reports on the German reggae and dancehall scene. You can e-mail her at petreb[AT]web.de. |
 Richard "DJ Spleece" Moore
DJ Spleece started broadcasting reggae on the radio in late 1996 on Fresno's college station, KFSR. He knows that one person can change the world even through subtle ways such as music influence. Now primarily a club selector for Reality Sound International, Spleece hosts a radio show once a month on Satellite Radio Bilingue (International & web satellite simulcast - Listen on-line @ RadioBilingue.org), and also a spot on FresnoReggae.com doing a monthly web cast. Spleece is the webmaster for FresnoReggae.com, as well as RealitySounds.com. Outside of reggae music, Spleece is a potter and ceramic artist. You can see his work at www.RichardMooreCeramics.com. |
 stan evan smith
Stan Evan Smith is currently the music editor for Caribbean Style Newspaper and a contributing writer for the West Indian Times & Everybody’s magazine. He is also the co-host and co-producer of "Reggae Roundtable" on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York. His work has been published in various publications including the Jamaica Observer, Vibe Magazine, Network Journal, Unfold magazine and the North American Gleaner; and in addition to consulting on the Nyahbinghi project at the Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian Institute, he has been an Adjunct Lecturer in Social Science at the City College of New York and Queens College. He is veteran of radio/television/print media in NYC. Stan is also the publicist for the Dennis Brown Memorial Committee in NY. His pet project is to solicit national recognition for both Dennis Brown and Peter Tosh, both of whom he feels have been greatly overlooked. |
 ted boothroyd
Ted Boothroyd: No longer young but far from old, European in background but Canadian in foreground, tattooless of body but truly cluttered of mind, father of two but spouse of one, dark chocolate enthusiast but total cheese sceptic, failed musician but exceptional album collector, dedicated non-follower of fashion but faithful fan of the funnies, former editorial cartoonist but imminent eminent sculptor, book reviewer for "The Beat" but music critic for Jahworks.org, opinionated oaf to some readers but dogmatic boor to others, horrified observer of social trends but optimistic seeker of truth. That's Ted. |
tom orr
Tom Orr is a Southern California-based writer, voice actor, percussionist and working stiff whose scribings have tainted several otherwise quality magazines and web sources. His Jah works include providing love and support to his wife Teresa and children
Bethany, Shiloh and Elijah.
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 wendy russell
Wendy Russell, ex-promoter in Fresno, CA for 15 years is now Festival volunteer, organizer, writer and photographer, and also editor of Reggae Festival Guide. She is a radio DJ on Satellite Radio Bilingue nationwide, worldwide at www.radiobilingue.org. |
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