Welcome to Triggered ..... A requiem of healing
Triggered is a multi sensory, multimedia, post-traumatic story. How exactly does Sexual trauma cast a shadow over the wholeness of black male selfhood? When the shared cultural values of black and brown communities demand that men suppress their vulnerabilities and meet with their psychology alone.
Triggered follows a day in the life of two such men, Ishmel and Keith. As these men relive their stories of abusive childhoods, they embark on a journey to define their own manhood and identity. Malik and Keith are played by Keith Mascoll SAG-AFTRA, AEA and is directed by John Oluwole Adekoje.
The “Triggered” experience is a two Act 90 minute long tour de force with Act 2 being Processing and grounding facilitated by Roxann Mascoll MS MSW LICSW
“Triggered is a powerful, and riveting monologue that needed to be shared to raise the awareness around childhood trauma and the implications of living through this pain and suffering in silence.”
Bios
Dr. Shawn Ginwright is the Jerome T. Murphy Professor of Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where his work focuses on trauma, healing, and empowering African American youth. With an acute focus on the challenges faced by urban youth in navigating poverty and striving for equality and justice, and his introduction of the concept of "healing-centered engagement," Ginwright's research has been instrumental in reshaping the discourse surrounding youth development. Ginwright is also the co-founder and chief executive officer of Flourish Agenda, Inc., a research lab and consulting firm dedicated to unlocking the power of healing and empowering youth of color, as well as their adult allies, to drive transformative change in their schools and communities.
Dr. Robert O. Motley Jr. is an affiliated scholar in the Justice Police Center at the Urban Institute and an assistant professor at Boston College School of Social Work, where he is the founder and principal investigator of the Racism-based Violence Injury and Prevention Lab. Motley has extensive research expertise at the intersection of racism, police violence, and trauma among marginalized emerging adult populations and associated mental and behavioral health outcomes. He has received research funding from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evidence for Action program. Motley’s research has been published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, and he has presented his findings at national and international conferences. He received a master of social work degree from the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois Chicago and his doctoral degree from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Sanford "Sandy" Gilmore joined the staff of the Efficacy Institute as one of its first full-time trainers in 1990, and has consulted with educators and community leaders to implement Efficacy across the country. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston with a B.A. in Psychology and Human Services, Sandy formerly worked in the field of clinical psychology and social work. He has additionally designed and directed programs in human development for the non-profit community agency, Freedom House, Inc. in Boston.
John Oluwole ADEkoje is a Nigerian-American filmmaker who examines the crossroad at which African and African-American filmmaking meet. John was born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Nigerian parents. A first generation American, his family relocated back to Kaduna, Nigeria when he was 9 years old and he lived there until he returned to the United States to attend the University of Wisconsin, Lacrosse. John later pursued a double MFA in filmmaking and dramatic writing from Humboldt State University, where he began his exploration of what he termed the “Language of the Diaspora”. The “Language of the Diaspora” served as the foundation of his search for ways to create work that imagines and embodies the future of Afrocentric visual storytelling. Culturally a dual citizen, he was keenly aware that African storytelling was not considered in the American traditional canon.
Keith Mascoll SAG-AFTRA,AEA, M.ed Candidate Harvard Graduate School of Education is a Actor, Producer ,Mental Health advocate, Sneaker-head, and Founder of the Triggered Project. Keith is a co-host/Producer of the Living a Triggered Life Podcast with his wife Roxann, a Luminary for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023 Black Mental Wellness Advocate of the year,2021 Cambridge Community Foundation Social Innovation Award winner, and NASW MA Chapter’s Citizen of the year 2021. Keith strives to use his art for social change in the black and brown community. As a survivor of sexual abuse Keith hopes to help end the stigma that surrounds mental health, and black and brown men. Keith (founding staff member) played a significant role in the rise of Citizen Schools success in transforming the learning day and improving the educational trajectories of young people across the country.