Our Creative Team

Ballard guides Melanotion’s creative vision, partnerships, and storytelling strategy across publications, film, and community activations. She leads the organization’s mission to preserve and amplify cultural memory through design, story, and space. Ballard’s work ensures that personal and collective histories are captured, honored, and passed forward.

Mosley oversees Melanotion’s complete visual language, from publication and social design to brand aesthetics and event environments. Her art direction shapes how Melanotion’s stories are seen, felt, and experienced across print, digital, and spatial platforms.

Akorful leads Melanotion’s moving-image storytelling, overseeing video production, cinematography, and post-production across documentary and brand projects. His work expands the Living Archive into film, sound, and motion, translating stories into cinematic memory.

Penny, founder of Lesous Design, is a spatial designer who collaborates and partners with Melanotion to shape intentional environments that blend beauty, function, and memory. Her work supports the emotional and narrative flow of each gathering, from furniture styling to altar placement, helping us transform venues into sensory, sacred spaces.