Joshua Vincent
Template:TOCnestleft Joshua Vincent is a North Carolina activist. He is an Organizer & Musician.
Joshua Vincent previously served as the State Coordinator for Civic Engagement and GOTV for the NC NAACP in 2012 and was Lead Organizer/ Deputy State Coordinator with Obama for America during the 2008 campaign. As a musician, Joshua has worked with Grammy award winning poets, vocalists and producers such as J. Ivy, Tarrey Torrae, and Buckwild. Joshua and his twin brother worked on the score for the second season of Aaron McGruder’s the Boondocks, alongside 9th Wonder. A trained Jazz Trombonist who also plays salsa, Joshua has performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, The International Association of Jazz Educators conference in Toronto, Long Beach, and New York, and the International Jazz Festival in Detroit. Joshua is also one half of the musical production/hip hop duo Beatnam Vets. They have opened for artists such as Erykah Badu an d Lupe Fiasco and have two full length albums on iTunes. He was among the 6 student protesters arrested in NC House Speaker Thom Tillis’ office opposing the voter suppression bill. Joshua Vincent has a Master’s degree in History with a concentration in Jazz studies on Jazz and American Diplomacy during the Cold War Era from NCCU and has his second Master’s degree at UC Berkeley in music. Josh currently resides in Raleigh where he continues to be an active organizer and play music.[1]
In 2014 Josh was the Field Director for Ignite NC. As a musician, Joshua has worked with Grammy award winning poets, vocalists and producers such as J. Ivy, Tarrey Torrae, and Buckwild and 9th Wonder. Joshua is also one half of the musical production/hip hop duo Beatnam Vets. They have opened for artists such as Erykah Badu and Lupe Fiasco. Josh and his brother co-wrote part of the score for the second season of Arron McGruder’s The Boondocks on Cartoon Network. Recently, the twin scored the first documentary on the uprising in Ferguson called “Ferguson a Report from an Occupied Territory”, featured on the Fusion Network.
He is a Senior Organizer for the Movement Voter Project.[2]
SVA Board of Directors
Southern Vision Alliance board of directors, September 2017;
- Joshua Vincent (Board Co-Chair)
- Jess Jude (Board Co-Chair)
- Raul Arce Jimenez (Board Member)
- Peter Gilbert (Board Secretary)
- Elizabeth Simpson (Board Treasurer)[3]