Ty Gray-EL, CSMT, is an author, activist and playwright. He is also a certified stress management therapist through the National Association of Drug & Alcohol Interventionist. as well as a certified seminar leader and keynote speaker. He serves as the Chief Communications Officer for the Empowerment Center-DC and the Executive Director of the Hands On the Future youth development program. He is the author of the critically acclaimed ’A Black Woman’s Smile’ and the author of the award winning cultural enrichment series, ’Ancestors Remembered-The Cream Shall Rise’.