CULTURETECHLENSPress Room · Leadership
Leadership Bios
The people who run CultureTechLens — a five-member nonprofit board in Chicago. Interview requests for any of them route through the press contact: [email protected].
William Maxey — Founder & President
William Maxey is the President and founder of CultureTechLens NFP, Chicago. He describes himself as a “Cultural Knowledge Architect” — the working discipline behind the archive is evidence before authority: every claim graded, every source named, every correction public. A self-taught researcher who built the archive’s record-keeping systems from the ground up, he directs CultureTechLens’s research, its 4,111-entity knowledge graph, and the monthly CultureTechLens Index. As DJ BrothaMax he is an open-format soulful DJ — the music archive is built by someone who has played the records. Full bio: culturetechlens.com/about/founder/.
Short version (50 words): William Maxey is the founder and President of CultureTechLens, Chicago’s Black cultural intelligence archive. A self-taught cultural knowledge architect and DJ (BrothaMax), he built its evidence-graded record of Black Chicago and the diaspora — 4,111 sourced entities, a cited photo archive, and a monthly Index — to be cited.
The board of directors
| Keanna Marshall | Secretary-Treasurer — officer of the corporation; keeper of its minutes, records, and, with the President, its accounts. |
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| Sheila Maxey | Director — member of the board of directors of CultureTechLens NFP. |
| Anthony Hollins | Director — member of the board of directors of CultureTechLens NFP. |
| Tawanna Huff | Director — member of the board of directors of CultureTechLens NFP; joined the board in October 2026. |
Governance documents — bylaws, policies, and formation records — are summarized on the About pages; the board’s policy adoptions are public record in the organization’s filings. Photography of the leadership is available through the press contact.