Name: dē/ah́/lō

True position: Sr. Art Director

Background: Black

Heroes: Basquiat

Other places I have worked: GSD&M, TBWA/Chiat/Day L.A.

Point of view: I got there and there was no there there.

Name: Chase

True position: Writer/Creative Director

Background: My dad is brown. my mom, not as much

Heroes: Leon Conerly Sr., my "Poppa"

Other places I have worked: I've "worked" in a supermarket and a video store. Writing ads ain't work.

Point of view: "I don't know what I'm looking for, something that hasn't been played before. I don't know what it is. I know I'll have that feeling when I get it."
-John Coltrane

Name: A A

True position: Administrative Assistant

Background: My last name is German-speaking Swiss.

Heroes: My parents, Maya Angelou, Helen Keller

Other places I have worked: Law firm: Tune, Entrekin & White, D.C.

Point of view: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Name: Corleone

True position: Account Director

Background: African American, Native American

Heroes: My mother, my brothers, my godfather and the other side of me

Other places I have worked: Leo Burnett (2x), Carol H. Williams, Campbell-Ewald, Muse, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo

Point of view: Walk confindently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined! -Thoreau

Name: Obi Wan

True position: Account Director

Background: (100% proud) African-American

Heroes: Martin Luther King, Muhammed Ali and Jim Brown

Other places I have worked: Arnold Communications, Fleishman-Hillard, Muse USA, Hershey/Cause

Point of view: I'll take it straight, no chaser.

Name: Cloud Hopper

True position: Media Planner

Background: Part Vietnamese and Chinese with a hint of British

Heroes: My Mother-the only person who knows exactly who I am. Okay, and maybe Lee Clow.

Other places I have worked: Initiative Media, Ogilvy & Mather, Riester-Robb

Point of view: I like being a student of life. I may never get my Master's in it, but I hear you get points for good participation.

Name: All Business

True position: General Manager

Background: Mexican, born in the U.S.

Other places I have worked: Muse Cordero Chen & Partners, Valdes Zacky & Associates, al Punto, J.Walter Thompson, Saatchi & Saatchi.

Point of view: As a society I wish we would focus more on education. Education opens our eyes to eliminate barriers and prejudice, and helps us recognize potential.

Name: Brian

True position: Director of Finance

Background: Black

Heroes: Mohammed Ali

Other places I have worked: Goetzman Group, True Pacific Communications,
Tewet Healthcare, Avon Products, Grant Thornton

Point of view: It's not where you are from, but where you are at.

Name: Fire Dancer

True position: Print Producer

Background: Panamanian

Heroes: Jesus Christ, my Dad.

Other places I have worked: TBWA/Chiat/Day. LCA-Honalulu, Twentieth Century Fox Films, AN&B/LA

Point of view: "It's not about me." Also, my eyes turn outward to see things around me. They don't turn inward for constant self-examination

Name: Just Win Baby

True position: Partner

Background: West-Indian, first-generation American

Heroes: Are everywhere, in all colors, nations and languages

Other places I have worked: Goldman Sachs, Credit Lyonnais Investments, Wasserstein Perella. (And I worked at Harvard College and Stanford Business School, but they didn’t pay me)

Point of view: The whole Black versus Latino thing does not really make sense. People don’t live their lives in silos. No one. The old Jim Crow, segregated approach to marketing makes about as much sense as saying that people in the suburbs don’t listen to Beyonce or Jennifer Lopez. Culturally, the USA and Western Europe are already “brown and beige,” a good 50 years before the population will become officially, demographically and finally, “brown and beige.” No one is in the majority anymore. Now the scary part is... That it really is not that scary. We’ll be OK

Name: Tricia

True position: Biller/A.P.

Background: Fair-skinned variety – Irish, German, English, Scottish

Heroes: Grandmother, Mother and Sister – all three have overcome immense obstacles to lead extraordinary lives.

Other places I have worked: Wachovia, Bank of America

Point of view: If you see someone without a smile today, give them one of yours.

Name: M R

True position: Senior Producer

Background: Mexican-American (L.A. native, both of my parents are from Durango, Mexico)

Heroes: My amazing parents, Carlos and Alicia Bolivar, who immigrated to the States at such a young age, Maya Angelou, M.L.K., Albert Einstein, Frida Kahlo, Jack Kerovak and my husband, Chris, the Englishman who's embraced my culture so lovingly and taught me so much about his.

Other places I have worked: RPA on Honda, documentary film work on the side

Point of view: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin
A woman in harmony with her own spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself. -Maya Angelou

Name: Rob

True position: I.T. Manager

Background: North American Mutt

Heroes: Still hiring!

Other places I have worked: Emmy Awards, 911

Point of view: It's better to be good than lucky.

Name: Ghost In The Shell

True position: Copywriter

Background: Mother, vampire. Father, werewolf.

Heroes: Very old trees, a drop of water that has found its way back to the ocean, and the Hunter's moon.

Other places I have worked: Shhhhh! The IRS might be "listening."

Point of view: I am determined to not exist in a world of should.

Name: Monika

True position: Project Manager

Background: Czech, Caucasian, 1/4 German and US permanent resident

Heroes: All those who keep going when others can't.

Other places I have worked: FX Network, Colby & Partners, Gray Matter FX, Hachette Filipachi Media, Marianne and Elle Magazine in Prague.

Point of view: The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Name: Rio

True position: Chairman

Background: Togolese French

Heroes: Nelson Mandela, MLK, Arundhati Roy, Massive Attack

Other places I have worked: Dazed & Confused magazine in London, Trace magazine in London and New York

Point of view: Defy gravity