Year-Round Development Consultant

As Principal of Written Wings since 2011, Erica views her consulting as service to the oppressed, working in the background as an ally helping community nonprofits tell their stories in their own voices, access resources, and use best practices to operate efficiently and impactfully. She has supported dozens of local and national nonprofits in the fields of social justice, human services, economic development, and the arts. Erica particularly serves many racial justice and reproductive justice groups, including working since 2014 with SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, the national nonprofit that founded the reproductive justice movement. In addition to serving Blues to Green since 2014, her local clientele includes Community Action Pioneer Valley, Tapestry Health, and many others. Erica raises millions of dollars each year through grant writing and fortifies nonprofits with strategic, development, and program planning. She also guides clients to create program evaluation systems and messaging strategies, and she writes appeals and outreach materials of all kinds. She provides all of these services for Blues to Green. She is also a Latin dancer involved in Springfield and Holyoke’s largely Puerto Rican Latin dance community and spends part of the year in Vieques, Puerto Rico annually with her dance and life partner (below), who is of Puerto Rican descent.

Year-Round Communications Consultant & Seasonal Festival Production Manager

Kyle has been House Sound Engineer and Technical Director for the iconic Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, MA and toured internationally as Technical Director for numerous artists giving concerts at all scales. When he became a parent, he shifted to a career in IT, marketing, and design, but later returned to music by founding Laudable Productions, which produces festivals and concerts and consults for artists and presenters. They produce the annual Barbes in the Wood festival, Millpond Live summer concert series, World Music Collider quarterly concerts, Planetary Party monthly concerts, and Hinterland Live farm-to-table concerts. He also tours as Technical Director with Sweet Honey in the Rock. Kyle recently co-founded Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, a nonprofit that stewards the former Florence Congregational Church building, built by abolitionists, as a venue for arts and social justice experiences in Florence, MA. He has been the Springfield Jazz & Roots festival’s Production Manager since 2016 and now leads his own team at Laudable Productions to produce the festival. Kyle also manages the festival’s sound and light, and he supports Blues to Green year-round with graphic design and our newsletter and website.