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Join us for free: Subscribe to our monthly newsletter and never miss an issue of Inkandescent Health & Wellness magazine. Send us an email to get on our mailing list. 

Be a Member: For $20/month (or $200/year) members have access to all of our classes online from movement to mindfulness, lunch & learns, workshops, and more. You get discounts to all of our in-person classes — and get additional discounts on one-on-one coaching sessions ranging from fitness to nutrition, and life coaching, too. Click here to send an email saying you’d like to sign up for a year — receive a free Inkandescent™ t-shirt!

Be an Inkandescent Teacher or Coach: For $50/month ($500/year) our teachers get promoted and booked to teach classes at our growing number of venues and events where you’ll earn income. Each teacher gets a page on our website, and we shoot and introductory video to introduce you to our network. And, we create videos of your classes that are catalogued on our website for our members to watch at their convenience. For each view, you earn additional revenue. Click here to send an email with your idea as the first step in your application process.

Be a Sponsor: For $100/month ($1000/year) we will list your events, classes, and promote your business on our magazines, promotional materials, and Sponsorship pages. Contact us for details.

Questions? Don’t hesitate to reach out to see how you can become a part of this exciting project: 703-346-6975.

We look forward to connecting with you!  — Hope Gibbs, founder and president, The Inkandescent Group, LLC

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MEET THE INKANDESCENT™ TEAM

Hope Katz Gibbs, founder and president
The Inkandescent Group, LLC

Hope Katz Gibbs, President and founder The Inkandescent Group, LLC

Journalist, author, publicist, public speaker, and serial entrepreneur, Hope has been a professional writer since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. She has won awards for her newsletters, blogs, and feature articles that have appeared in hundreds of publications including The Washington Post, USA Today, the National Press Club blog, Virginia Business magazine, university alumni magazines (The George Washington University, The University of Pennsylvania, Baylor, and more) — and Costco’s magazine, The Connection, where she interviews bestselling authors.

In 2008, Hope founded Inkandescent Public Relations, a PR, marketing, and social media firm that in the last decade has helped hundreds of small business owners increase their visibility using her 8 Steps to PR Success™ — www.InkandescentPR.com. Helping entrepreneurs supersize their small business is the focus of her 200-page interactive guidebook, “PR Rules: The Playbook,” lauded by reporters at The Washington Post, among others, and available at www.PRRulesPlaybook.com.

Also in 2008, Hope launched TrulyAmazingWomen.com, a website that features hundreds of women who are making strides and changing lives. In 2015, she launched TrulyAmazingWomen.TV, a monthly series that showcases these remarkable women in videos on her popular YouTube channel, www.Inkandescent.TV. In 2018, she launched Inkandescent Women magazine.

Contact Hope: hope@hopegibbs.com / 703-346-6975

Wellness by Anna: AnnaGibbs.com

Anna Paige Gibbs — Director of “Your Well on Wheels” at Inkandescent Health & Wellness and founder of Wellness by Anna Banana

Anna Paige Gibbs is an artist and professional photographer + videographer  based in Richmond, Virginia. She has a studio practice that currently explores and documents intimate dynamics in her life that work to ultimately help inform her identity formation.

Through her work, Anna talks about the complications that come with the presence of intimacy between any two individuals: self-to-self; partner-to-partner; parent-to-child; etc. Using photos, letters and artifacts from her family archive to inform her perception of both the past and present, Anna explores concepts of motherhood, childhood, envy, mental illness, love, death and control. She also uses daily outdoor photo walks to capture moments in the world as she sees it and inform the development of perception.

Anna is also a professional event photographer and videographer, specializing in weddings and right-of-passage parties. “I follow the love and the light around the day, capturing moments big and small and creating something magical for the client to cherish and hold on to forever,” she says.

In 2018, she became a Wellness Coach and helped her mom, Hope Katz Gibbs, found Inkandescent Health & Wellness. She took the lead on putting Your Well on Wheels, creating health and wellness pop-up classes in cities around the country.

Contact Anna: Anna@AnnaGibbs.com.

Brandi Wilsker, Executive Producer, Inkandescent Radio

A digital design professional with more than two decades of marketing and graphic design experience, Brandi says: “I enjoy being at the epicenter of color, creativity, the written word, and helping radio shows spring to life.”

An artist at heart, she has written about art and paper crafting for the Philadelphia Examiner, and designed and implemented a popular art program for a summer camp in Pennsylvania that worked with more than 300 children.

Tired of shoveling snow, this Philadelphia native now resides in Phoenix, Arizona.

Looking to be featured on InkandescentRadio.com? Send us an email.

Nelson Benavides, Director of Inkandescent videography

InkandescentTV videographer and video editor, Nelson Benavides was born and raised in Springfield, VA. A graduate of VCUarts kinetic imaging program, he has been on the InkandescentPR.com team since 2014.

Based in Richmond, VA, Nelson films videos at the company’s headquarters in downtown Richmond, VA, and travels nationally with the company’s founder Hope Katz Gibbs to tell the stories of corporations, entrepreneurs, and TrulyAmazingWomenTV.com.

Award-winning Illustrator and Designer Michael Glenwood Gibbs, www.MGlenwood.com

Michael Gibbs — Art Director, founder of Michael Gibbs Illustration & Design

Michael Gibbs has been a freelance illustrator and designer since attending Pratt Institute as a photography and illustration major in the mid-70s.

His award-winning artwork has appeared in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Worth Magazine, Consumer Reports, Harvard Business Review, and publications for United Airlines, Verizon, IBM, Sears, American Airlines, CitiGroup and Oracle. He has also illustrated the covers and features of dozens of alumni magazines including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Vanderbilt, the University of Chicago and American University.

His illustrations have been recognized by prestigious art publications such as Communication Arts, 3×3 Magazine, Print, and Spectrum.

His work has also been exhibited at a variety of museums and galleries including the Society of Illustrator’s Museum of American Illustration in New York City, the Billy Shire Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles, and in Washington area at the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Sumner School Museum, Montgomery College Gallery and the University of Maryland Gallery.

Discover his award-winning work at www.mglenwood.com • Buy his stock illustration at www.stockillustration.com

Contact Michael: Michael@MichaelGibbs.com

Web developer — Max Kukoy, founder of Maxworks

Max Kukoy has been a Washington DC based freelance web developer/designer since 2000. Max earned his master’s degree in environmental science from the University of Oklahoma in 1993, then started working in public health and environmental policy at Washington DC based non-profits. After a few years of policy work, he started working on his organizations web site, eventually deciding to start working as a freelancer under the name maxwebworks.

Sites range from simple database-driven sites, to ones with e-commerce capability. Max uses widely used and supported open source software applications to build web sites. He believes the site should be easy for the client to use and maintain and emphasizes building accessible web sites.