Meet The Jury Panel

Kwame-Michael Brako is an award-winning Creative Director, VFX Artist, Animator and Founder of BrakoVerse Media, with over 20 years of experience across film, gaming, and animation. His Hollywood credits include The Avengers, Godzilla and GI Joe, where he contributed to visual effects and stereoscopic production, while also working across the gaming industry to create immersive real-time experiences. Today, he's bringing that global expertise back to Ghana with a mission to contribute to the country's animation, VFX, and gaming industries by training the next generation of creators and building world-class creative opportunities locally, while creating his own animations and films.

Jacqueline Ward-Brew is an educator, curriculum specialist, educational consultant, and Founder and Executive Director of Abura Kids International Inc. With more than 15 years of experience in education, her work focuses on curriculum development, literacy, culturally responsive teaching, instructional leadership, and professional learning for educators.

Her work extends to Ghana, where she currently provides ongoing mentorship and professional learning to teachers in a rural school, supporting instructional practice and student learning. Through Abura Kids International, she plans to expand this work to additional schools and communities.

Jacqueline’s long-term vision is to establish an early childhood school and teacher training center in Ghana that will also serve as a lab school, creating opportunities for educators to engage with current educational research, observe effective classroom practice, and receive ongoing mentorship and support.

Born in Ghana and raised in the United States from a young age, Jacqueline looks forward to returning to Ghana and contributing more directly to its educational landscape. She is passionate about developing both educators and young people and creating opportunities that strengthen confidence, capacity, leadership, and lasting impact.

Rand is widely known for her work as co-lead counsel for the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, cases that shaped a national conversation on justice and equality. She also served as international legal counsel to the family of George Floyd, representing them before the United Nations in a case that led to adoption of the landmark George Floyd Resolution on human rights and policing.

As the founding attorney of RAND LAW, L.L.C., based in Miami, Rand focuses on civil and human rights, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death litigation. Her advocacy extends globally—she is also a law professor and has lectured at Harvard Law School, University Mohammed V in Morocco, and the University of the West Indies, and advised Morocco’s Supreme Court on integrating international human rights standards into its judicial system. Rand has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law, where she teaches innovative courses exploring law and social impact, and she is annual teaching faculty in Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop. Most recently, Rand was hosted by a Parliament member in the United Nations where she addressed families of loved ones killed due to police violence.

Rand is also a frequent legal analyst for television and various media sources and has appeared on CNN, ABC, MSNBC, NBC, Fox News, BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera; her reach is truly global and she has appeared on television, print media, and radio on every Continent except Antartica.

Rand’s life work underscores the strength of individual purpose in international promoting human rights and advancing justice. She practices law not only as a profession, but with the understanding of a profound responsibility to shape a society rooted in respect and equality. Rand is the co-founder of Future of Justice, alongside attorney Benjamin Crump, Esquire, an organization that confronts various human rights abuses throughout the world with an emphasis on racial discrimination.