CR8:BLK Staff, Team, and Board

President/Founder-Strategist/ Producer

Rebekah A. Frimpong, MPH is a filmmaker and poet who spends her spare time as a mentor to youth and as a community activist fighting for women's rights and global health issues. Rebekah's film work is mostly documentary, but she does enjoy telling real stories on film both in narrative and documentary format. She started out as an theatrically trained actress and later became a film festival producer/curator in the Virginia and Washington, DC area.  After hosting under her non-profit organization RWUL (Reelworldwide Underground Link), three successful film festivals, organizing over 20+ public film screenings, and teaching film workshops in Africa and the US, she is now embarking on a promising film career as a director and writer. Her most acclaimed and recent project Vanishing Seeds-Haiti was done in association with Trees for the Future in 2010. She is currently working on a feature documentary film called ADOWA that was fiscally sponsored by Dance Films Association.

Co-Producer/Inspiration
​(8/28/83-10/21/2017 RIP)
Leah Keturah Caesar, was born in Philadelphia. and is a film producer, director, and photographer. She documents the beautiful people of the world, and considers it her " passion". She became a filmmaker in 2008, with her first film project documenting Philadelphia’s Hip Hop history in dance titled: Philly Raw Talent. After that she enrolled in school at The Art Institute of Philadelphia for Digital filmmaking and Video Production.  Shortly after, she have received her certificate as a Television Producer at PhillyCam, and started her own film collective titled: Raw Talent Productions. Other inspirational passions for Caesar include curating photo exhibition in art and culture, b-boying/ HipHop, creative consulting, event planning, and studying art. Sadly, “Keturah” passed away on 10/21/2017 before being able to see CR8:BLK blossom.

Board Advisory
​Lead Collaborator

Ron J. Fields, MFA is a DC based filmmaker and has a BFA and MFA in Film and Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). For CR8:BLK web series he worked on production, video, and consulted with the producers on ways to make the series impact resound with a broad audience. Fields has also taught filmmaking and elements of film and cinema at VCU. Ron now leads the advisory board for CR8:BLK as a nonprofit and helps in creating programs that adhere to the mission and vision of the organization.
CR8:BLK Core Values:
  • Integrity and Identity
  • ​Creative Solutions
  • ​Community Focused-Centered
  • ​Education
  • ​Empowerment and Expression  
CR8:BLK Board Members:
  • ​Nakita Mayfield
  • Rachel Caesar
  • Ron Fields
  • Eric West
  • Tanya Upshur
CR8:BLK Team:
•President-Rebekah Frimpong
•Treasurer-Curtis Jennings
•Secretary-Binahkaye Joy