A Visual Approach is co-directed by Hope Tyson and Jaclyn Gilstrap and is based in Durham, North Carolina

Hope Tyson (she/her) is a visual thinker born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. Her work in community engagement, capacity building and training, human-centered design and visual thinking has led her around the world from Peru to Zambia to Bangladesh. An activist focused on gender equity, Hope is committed to increasing access to freedom and power for all. She lives in North Carolina and works in Spanish and English.

Jaclyn Gilstrap (she/her) is a community connector, group facilitator, birth doula, and artist whose work is rooted in deep listening. Her background is in global reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, rape crisis support, ethical global engagement, and racial equity. She speaks Spanish, English and Azerbaijani. Jaclyn and her cat live in North Carolina with their beloved community and medium successful garden. 

Anne Dubos is a social anthropologist and transmedia artist. 

She studied Anthropology at EHESS Paris, obtained an MA in Political Sciences and Political Arts (SPEAP) at Sciences-Po, IEP Paris under the supervision of Bruno Latour. She obtained her PhD in Social Anthropology from the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in 2013. During her PhD, she spent ten years of extended fieldwork analysing gesture- and movement-transmission in South-Indian theatre.

Pursuing her research beyond this context, she questions current epistemological and technological advances in movement capture and analysis, and engages in social projects around gesture, performance, and media arrangement (photo, video, sound and VR).

She was a postdoc at Geography Alpine & PACTE and  research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, IAS, Nantes and is now a correspondent member of the IAS Nantes. 

She is the author of many articles and the founder of  the company Little Heart Movement In Nantes.https://annedubos.com/index.php/author/anne-dubosgmail-com/