ALYCE EMORY (she/her/hers) is an award-winning production and community engagement expert who designs and implements innovative events and programs for corporate, academic and non-profit entities. Some of her clients included The Apollo Theater,  Urbanworld Film Festival, HBO, Harlem Circle of Life Celebration and Pride Memorial, Third Wave Foundation, African Atlantic Research Team of Michigan State University, and UNESCO. She serves on the steering committee for The Harlem SGL-LGBTQ Center - the first official LGBTQ center being developed in Harlem; the National  LGBTQ Women’s Survey; Black and Latino LGBTQ Coalition; African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change and was a Founding Advisory Committee member for Harlem Pride and Kitchen Table Giving Circle. During her tenure at NYC Black Pride she created and produced the first ever programming for black LGBTQ elders. She has participated in discussions and presentations on her community work for Schomburg Center LGBTQ Pride Month, Black Youth Project 100, Langston Hughes Black Film Festival and others. Alyce’s received the 2021 Griot Circle Changemaker Award and she & her teams received proclamations in 2018 from the Manhattan Borough President and in 2013 from the New York City Council. Alyce is a member of Women's Leadership Council, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Sociology from Georgia State University with further studies in Multi-Cultural Marketing from the New School of Social Research in New York City.