Friday Forum: Art, Activism, & Technology
The winter Friday Forum featured one of our own—entrepreneur Errol King, husband of Millbrook Dean of DEIB Patrice King. He and his colleague Idris Brewster prepared the community for the 2026 MLK Symposium by sharing about how their professional journeys have led them to where they are today: innovating at the intersection of technology, art, and culture.
King explained how video games, math, and jazz helped him find his way to a career in coding. From developing his own video game and programming language that teaches coding to kids, to creating inclusive coding spaces with Google, to transforming culture through technology and creativity via his current project, Innergalactic, he’s working to inspire the next generation of world changers.
“What I’m trying to say is, take a breath, trust your dream, act with courage, and co-create with love,” he told the students. “What currently is does not have to be.”
Another project King has been involved with is Kinfolk Tech, a company co-founded by Brewster, who King has mentored throughout his career. Brewster closed out the forum, sharing about his journey to success, from his filmmaking parents making a documentary about his experience at The Dalton School to discovering his love for virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) at Occidental College. His desire to combine his tech and artistic skills with his passion for activism led him to use AR to share cultural stories and create digital monuments across the US. Brewster and King also collaborated on the Ghostwriter project, which combines AI with an analog typewriter to answer questions in the voice of writer James Baldwin.
Brewster admonished students to find ways to use technology to shape a new reality, rather than letting it control them. “Explore your own path,” he said. “Activism takes many forms. We all have different roles to play.”
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