Tyree Boyd-Pates

Principal of NOMMO Cultural Strategies

Tyree Boyd-Pates is a Los Angeles-based museum curator, historian, professor, writer,  speaker, and social entrepreneur who expounds on Black culture from a millennial vantage point and mobilizes communities of color through journalism, social media, education, and history.

Featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vogue, Hollywood Reporter, Fast Company, The LA Times, NPR, and many others, Tyree's thought leadership is changing the conversation about how African American art, history, and culture is told during this moment.

As a museum curator, Tyree has leveraged his cultural expertise as a regular lecturer at UCLA and USC, moderated public conversations with the likes of Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Ava DuVernay, Ruth Carter, Terry Crews, Rakim, Chuck D, and KRS-One, and has also consulted the Smithsonian, the Getty Museum, the Broad museum, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic on various successful projects.

Inspired to bridge the gaps between the classroom, boardroom, museum gallery, and the African American community, Tyree built NOMMO Cultural Strategies to consult top organizations on how to use Black history as a lens to reflect and advance equality, equity, and justice within their projects.

Tyree graduated from Temple University with a Master's degree in Africology/African American Studies and from California State University, Bakersfield, with a Bachelor's Degree in Communications and a minor in African American Studies.

Recently, Tyree has been a 2021 Civic Media Fellow with the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC and a 2021 Innovation Fellow with the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. In 2023, he launched Freedom School Online - a digital platform for Black history, antiracism, and creative education.