Global Beatbox 2023 – Virtual Event

Katie Koestner is the first woman in the United States to speak out nationally and publicly as the victim of campus “date” rape at age 18. Katie has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine, The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC Nightly News, CNBC Talk Live, CNN, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Later Today, MSNBC, Entertainment Tonight and other national television programs. Katie is the subject of an HBO movie and has lectured for over 5000 schools and organizations in North America and around the world.

Following your dreams and rising above hardship has produced fabulous dividends for one entrepreneur, whose growing line of beauty products are now available at mega-retailer Walmart’s online store. Schenika Quattlebaum, a determined African-American domestic abuse survivor took her courage in hand and made a huge leap of faith when she started Natalia Me-Gan Beauty on August 9, 2018 for all of humanity. Mrs. Quattlebaum has made it her mission to be an advocate for domestic violence. Her story is truly inspirational and can serve as a boiler plate for those who have a dream and work hard towards making it a reality!

Anju is a doctor who completed her medical training in India and is a passionate advocate for equality and women’s rights. As a medical professional, she aims to use a trauma-informed perspective to empower people to heal and overcome the obstacles they face in their lives. She currently serves as the Director of International Ambassadors in TBTN and is committed to using her skills to advocate for and support survivors.

Rabea is the Executive Director of the nonprofit organization Beatbox Safe Space. It is her goal that everyone that enjoys beatboxing feels safe and represented in the growing hip hop art form. As a cptsd warrior it’s one of her biggest aspirations to bring healing to the spaces she works in and give misconduct prevention and response tools to event organizers. She is currently working towards starting a bachelor’s degree in social work in her home country of Germany and would love to focus on the intersection of music, community and mental health in her future work.

John “Galush” Galusha is a 2020 Graduate of Bowdoin College where they sang with the Meddiebempsters a cappella group and double-majored in Music and Gender/Sexuality Studies. A teaching artist, Galush has partnered with BEAT Global to lead clinical research studies pairing beatboxing with speech therapy. Galush is a former music educator for Region 1 in Connecticut and has an active roster of independent students in beatboxing, looping, singing, songwriting, and digital production. Combining their passions for education and social justice, Galush is also a representative of Beatbox Safe Space (non-profit) that works to advance inclusive and diverse spaces and event design within the beatboxing community.

Kaila Mullady is the 2015 & 2018 World Beatbox Champion who performs all over the world, infusing beatboxing, singing, rapping, and theater to push the boundaries of creativity and show just what the human instrument is capable of. Kaila is passionate about sharing the art form of beatboxing as a tool for authentic communication and self-expression.

Joe is a board member and audio engineer for the nonprofit organization Beatbox Safe Space. He takes a deep interest in the intersections of beatboxing, music production and neurodivergency. Due to his skill set he has a close connection to the Looping Community, a subset of the Beatbox Community that creates entire songs by looping their beatbox sounds. As the art form grows he would like to see better inclusion practices and safer events. Currently Joe is finishing up his degree in Music Production and planning on gaining more experience in event production.