Jamal Joseph
Biography
Jamal Joseph was born in New York City to Afro-Cuban parents who were both revolutionaries. At 15, he joined the Black Panther Party, feeling outraged after Martin Luther King's assassination and seeking a militant group to support his cause. He spent six years incarcerated at Leavenworth Penitentiary before becoming the executive artistic director of the New Heritage Theatre Group in Harlem in 1997, co-founding IMPACT Repertory Theatre along the way.