Founder, Executive Director, and Head of Mental Health Education & Outreach at BMHF. Emerson is a nationally and critically acclaimed triple-threat in American musical theatre, earning titles and awards spanning over twenty years of professional work. She holds several certifications and accreditations from esteemed mental health programs, all the while pursuing her masters degree in counseling psychology. Emerson draws upon her love of philosophy, world history, abstract thought, and social justice to inform her leadership.

CFO and Production Manager with a BA in Music Business from the Hartt School of Music. He is a gifted songwriter, vocalist, drummer, and guitarist, who began as a precocious child instrumentalist before securing a record deal at fifteen years old. Wesley combines financial expertise with a deep understanding of the arts to help guide the mission of BMHF. His many skills include orchestrating behind-the-scenes logistics, managing budgets, and capturing brand content. He has an undying love for animals, science fiction, history, and the art of music.

Clinical Director for BMHF. Libby has worked extensively with performers as a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist/Registered Dietitian. With childhood training in dance and musical theatre, she has dedicated her work to the health (mental, physical, and nutritional) of theatre folk. Libby's work background spans private practice, teaching, business development, non-profit, corporate, published writing, therapeutic consulting, and health tech. She serves as Advisor for the M.S. in Performance Nutrition with the University of South Carolina. 

Dr. Herr is an instructional theorist, Professor of Education, and Department Chair for Education who uses care and experiential means to engage, liberate, and inspire. Dr. Herr's experiences have helped his students gain self-confidence by embracing identities and ideas different from their own. Throughout his faculty tenure at TCC South, he has served as a writer of teaching dilemmas, a facilitator of thought experiments, and a champion of real-world implementations which have led his pre-service teachers to critical discoveries. Dr. Herr also serves as an advocate for equitable change, stemming from conversation to action. He enjoys spending time with his wife and four kids landscaping their five acres, exercising, cheering on the New York Yankees, writing for education, doing philosophy, working the microphone, and spitting freestyle rhymes.