Meet the Y’ALL ROCK CAMP ATL Board of Directors!

Y’all Rock Camp ATL is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization. Our dedicated all-volunteer working board keeps things running smoothly.

Not sure who to contact specifically? Reach out to the board as a group at board@yallrockcampatl.org.

Kim Grattan is a piano technician and musician. Her life was forever changed for the better when she attended musical theater camp as a tween, which eventually led to her joining her first band. Kim has experienced and firmly believes in the power of music to connect, heal, and inspire us. She's grateful for the opportunity to support an organization that creates a safe space and encourages young musicians to express themselves.

Melodie J. Rodgers

melodie@yallrockcampatl.org

Melodie J. Rodgers, MFA, has an extensive background in writing, professional development, and teaching in the United States, South America, Cayman Islands, and Jamaica. She has published research and other works with Johns Hopkins University, Nightingale College, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, Georgia State University Research Conference, G.R.I.T.S. – Girls Raised In the South: An Anthology of Queer Southern Womyns’ Voices and Their Allies, Embark Literary Journal, and many others.

Melodie has an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte with study abroad residencies in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. She is also a Benjamin A. Gilman International Study Abroad Scholarship Recipient, CIEE Alumni Study Abroad Ambassador, and an AmeriCorps alumna.

In March 2021, Melodie Rodgers became the podcast producer & founding editor of SOREN LIT. SOREN LIT is a Southern Renaissance literary journal and podcast showcasing writers and artists who are women, femme-identifying, and/or non-binary creatives with connections to the South.

Bradley Colburn (she/they) is an Atlanta-based actor/singer. She attended Camp from 2013-2018 and loved the impact it had on their life. She has been volunteering with YRC since 2022 and has been on the board since the beginning of 2025. They are very passionate about creating a fun and welcoming environment for campers and volunteers. She is looking forward to the future of YRC and seeing lives be changed for the better.

Tanisha Barnes (she/her) was born and raised in Southwest Atlanta and is the proud single mother of a bright and beautiful 11-year-old. She is a graduate of Georgia State University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Tanisha plans to pursue a master’s degree in clinical social work. In her free time, she enjoys reading and writing poetry and is an avid fan of Hip Hop and R&B music.

Her passion for music and her commitment to helping others heal led her to Y’all Rock Camp ATL in the summer of 2023. The experience working with both children and adults inspired her to make a long-term commitment to the organization as camp director for our 2024 youth summer camp. As a board member, Tanisha looks forward to helping cultivate a safe, inclusive space that supports and furthers YRC ATL’s mission.

Lily Zwaan is a violinist, guitarist, and music teacher. She first volunteered as a band coach at RIOT RI in Providence, and began volunteering at Y’all Rock ATL in 2022 after moving to attend Candler School of Theology. Lily is inspired by the brave, imaginative, gender-inclusive space at Y’all Rock Camp, and believes music can transform ourselves and our communities. She’s excited to support Y’all Rock Camp as a board member and continue learning from this incredible community!

Kiah is an artist, community builder, and creative born and raised in ATL. Raised by her mother, who was an art teacher, she developed an admiration for the arts very early, starting with visual arts like photography, traditional/digital painting, to performing like jazz dance and theater. She grew up with self-expression presented as a necessity and fundamental extension of one’s self. Her first art show was at the Shambhala Meditation Center in Decatur, giving her a taste of what it might be like to make a life in artistic entrepreneurship. After that, she continued her pursuit into that world.

At 24, she’d established herself in her community in Atlanta, holding events and spaces for queer and artistic young adults who felt their artistic spaces were lacking inclusion. So she started an art group called F.U.P.M., a very expressive, eclectic group of artists with punk spirit, diverse style, and energetic spark that worked together to present an art show each month.

Kiah, being the director of this group, earned very valuable skills in working with very strong personalities and limiting conditions to ultimately steer towards one complete goal and that is to make art despite or in light of adversity. That the common wall all adults face is “how can I continue to make? Despite the conditions of my environment and mind.”

Her goal has always been to help people keep making things with their own two hands. As a teen, going to YRC was a huge catalyst to her realization that she wanted to continue being an expressive artist who also participates in creating safe spaces for marginalized peoples. This camp opened her eyes to the many possibilities and paths to bringing people together, and that ultimately, that is all most communities desire: a place to be themselves, feel seen and apart. Leading her to her new endeavor as a board member, giving back to the same place that watered her in the most crucial part of her development. She looks forward to bringing a sense of whimsy, creativity, and energetic enthusiasm to this already amazing experience for returning and future campers.