Barbra Boyd is the director of the Louisville branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. She is also on the board of directors of the Kentucky Alliance against Racist and Political Repression and a director of Sowers of Justice. Rose Smith is the director of the ACE Project. The ACE project is dedicated to diminishing gun violence in Louisville. Rose Smith lost her sun to gun violence and Barbara Boyd’s grandson now struggles with a right-side paralysis as a result of Gun Violence.