KOO LABS DESIGN CENTER AND PRODUCTION HOUSE SERVES YOUTH, ADULTS AND ORGANIZATIONS.
Our state of the art music production studio offers a rich history of Bay Area artists and bands creating and mastering award winning albums.
KMA teaches and empowers youth ages 14-24 with the technical skills and soft skills across the music production, fashion design, and video production industries.
Our state of the art music production studio offers a rich history of Bay Area artists and bands creating and mastering award winning albums.
Our Fashion Innovation Lab is a clothing production center and job training incubator that teaches youth how to screen print & design merchandise.
KOO Labs Design Center and Production House serves as Kingmakers of Oakland’s community-based hub outside of schools. The goal of our center is to empower students and opportunity age youth with a space to develop marketable skills across multiple industries. KOO Labs will be an incubator for youth-generated music and video, and a community space for discovery, discussion, and enterprise.
Contractor: Media Productions
James C. Earl-Rockefeller, III is a videographer and production specialist for Kingmakers of Oakland Communications Department. “Rocke” began his career in entertainment as a professional stand-up comic in 1986. Moving to Oakland, CA in 1992 presented him the opportunity to appear on BET's Comic View (1st Season) and work for The Soulbeat Television Network, a 24 hour "black owned" network, broadcasting music videos, entertainment and community programming. Rocke is a sports Public Address Announcer for Stanford University, Laney and Merritt Community Colleges and the Oakland Athletic League.
Contractor: Media Producer
Born and raised in Oakland, California, Ramasses Head has produced a successful reality DVD series, Six independent feature films over 40 music videos along with many corporate and educational productions. Over the years he has produced projects in Los Angeles, CA, Atlanta, GA and Miami FL, in addition to the Bay Area. His work has been featured on HULU, VICELAND and BET Networks.
Contractor: Media Producer
Judd Fleming serves as video and film producer for Kingmakers of Oakland. With over 12 years experience Judd thrives in the film & video production industry working both independently and with partners as an Editor, Graphic Designer, and Producer. He has a curriculum based organization @u2cacademy Up To Code Academy (U2C) that creates engaging learning experiences that provides culturally relevant, video-based content to foster awareness and inspire action in today’s underserved youth.
Olu8 Films
ShakaJamal is a culturally innovative artist and filmmaker from Oakland, California. His experiences as film producer, director, cinematographer, editor, writer, performing artist, and music producer bring a distinctive and invaluable perspective to any venture. ShakaJamal is also the founder of Namaste Ready! a co-op that provides yoga and self care healing practices designed to activate and support the healing powers of the Black Community.
Chief of Communications, Media & Technology
Brenden Anderson is a mission-driven leader who works towards empowering and and vancing underserved communities by continuously expanding their opportunities for edication, skill development and career success. With a Masters in Ed Tech he is uniquely positioned at the convergence of education, journalism, multimedia production, and workforce development to support students of color in manifesting their life and career success. He strategically aligns and integrates his experiences, skills, and partnerships to close gaps and provide solutions to schools, youth organizations, educators, parents and students.
Media, Comms, & Tech Assistant
Damari is a stagehand, audiovisual specialist, video editor, and aspiring creative thinker. He considers himself a conduit through which stories are told – stories that present struggle and endearment; a quest for self-understanding & systems relationships. Damari is here to document transformations of the self, community and beyond.
