Governed by three.

Founder of the C.U.L.T. Life educational platform and the underlying content, curriculum, and philosophical framework the Foundation exists to fund and protect. Professional name Nathan James; legal name Nathaniel J Barnes.

Nathan's day-to-day work is in the audio-visual industry. His prior career was in media and entertainment, across production, brand development, audio engineering, and creative direction. Years of work across those two adjacent fields taught him how to keep complex projects on time and on standard — and how to hand off a finished thing, not a rough draft.

The technical work of the C.U.L.T. platform — the architecture, the design, the static-site delivery, the writing, the audio production, and the ongoing maintenance — was done by Nathan directly. The pattern he applies to a build is the same one he applies at work: own the whole lifecycle, and stay with it after launch. He built this way because that is the way he learned to work; the Foundation exists so families who could not otherwise afford this kind of platform get to use it too.

Founder and owner of NJP Productions LLC, co-founder of NJP Publishing LLC, and founder and owner of BCS LLC. Author of a trilogy whose ideas underlie the Foundation's mission direction — the books themselves left for the reader who follows the platform to find.

As President and Chair of the Board, Nathan is responsible for the Foundation's external representation, contract execution, board leadership, and stewardship of mission direction. He draws no salary, no expense reimbursement, and no benefit from Foundation funds. He serves as a volunteer director.

Co-founder of the Foundation and the public host of the C.U.L.T. Life platform's family-facing experience. Nyasia is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree in Psychology as an honor student — a course of study directly aligned with the Foundation's mission to design educational experiences around how children actually think, feel, and develop.

Her academic focus on psychology is not incidental to her role. It shapes the way she reads every enrollment email, every family conversation, every child's first interaction with the platform. Understanding developmental psychology — how attention, identity, and self-concept form — is exactly what a children's educational Foundation needs in its leadership. She brings that lens to every Board discussion.

Alongside her studies, Nyasia works in a daycare, caring for young children in the earliest years of language and identity development. The kind of understanding that comes from watching a two-year-old figure out a puzzle, or comforting a four-year-old through a hard morning, does not come from books. She has it — and it shapes the platform's Sparks tier and the way the Foundation thinks about early childhood.

The daycare Nyasia works in is owned by a community leader whose first language is Spanish. Through that environment, Nyasia has spent time with families whose children were transitioning from Spanish into English — and observed, up close, what the earliest years of that transition actually look like. It was there she saw the gap that the platform's C.U.L.T. Chispas tier now fills: a Spanish-first curriculum for ages three through six, built alongside the English-first Sparks tier, so a bilingual family can enroll in the language their child already speaks at home and grow into the second at the child's own pace. The idea for Chispas was born in that daycare, from Nyasia's observation. The platform now serves those exact families.

As Secretary of the Board, she is responsible for corporate minutes, records, notices, and the Foundation's compliance calendar. As Treasurer, she owns the financial books, banking oversight, and preparation of the Foundation's annual IRS Form 990 filing. As the Foundation's Statutory Agent under Ohio law, she is the designated point of contact for legal service of process — the person the state can reach if anyone ever needs to reach the Foundation. Three distinct fiduciary responsibilities, carried simultaneously, before the age of twenty-one.

Outside the Foundation, Nyasia is the owner of NJP Publishing LLC, the publishing imprint responsible for Inner Orbit Press — a poetry and spoken-word division launching under her editorial direction. The publishing imprint's model — transparent tier-split author partnerships, quarterly public ledger, and full contract text posted on the website — is unusually radical for an imprint of any size and unheard-of at her age. She is not a passive owner; she is the editorial voice and business decision-maker of the imprint.

Within the C.U.L.T. platform, Nyasia is the platform's namesake and its face for the family-facing side — the person parents and children interact with when they enter the platform. She reads the enrollment emails, replies personally, and welcomes each family in. Her name is the platform.

She draws no salary, no expense reimbursement, and no benefit from Foundation funds. She serves as a volunteer director.

Independent Director of The Cultivation Foundation. Anisha is a dedicated educator and literacy leader with more than twenty years of experience serving students, teachers, and school communities. Since the beginning of her career in 2006, she has taught every elementary grade from kindergarten through fifth, and has served as both an instructional literacy coach and a state elementary literacy specialist. She currently serves as an Instructional Content Developer, where she designs high-quality instructional resources and impactful professional learning opportunities for educators.

Anisha holds the Education Specialist Degree (Ed.S.) — a post-master's, sub-doctoral credential reserved for practitioners with deep specialization and years of applied classroom and leadership work. In the education profession, the Ed.S. sits at the intersection of practitioner expertise and research fluency: it is a credential earned by educators who have moved from teaching individual students to shaping the systems that teach every student.

Anisha's educational philosophy is rooted in the conviction that literacy is a fundamental civil right. Two decades of classroom and leadership work have taught her that true educational equity is achieved when the gap between research and practice is bridged, and that supporting teachers with systemic, evidence-based tools is the most effective way to unlock student potential. Behind every thriving student is an empowered educator, and she has dedicated her career to ensuring the latest in literacy science is accessible, actionable, and culturally responsive.

She brings a wealth of systemic knowledge and deep, practical expertise to a nonprofit educational organization — a unique blend of high-level strategic vision and on-the-ground understanding. She excels at translating complex educational standards into engaging, scalable curricula and professional development programs. She has served on the English Language Arts Advisory Council for the state of Georgia, one of the councils that shape how millions of students in a single state are taught to read.

As Independent Director, Anisha holds no officer role, no financial relationship to the founders, and no compensated position — a structural choice that preserves the arm's-length independence the IRS requires of 501(c)(3) public charities. She provides independent judgment on all financial decisions, related-party transactions, and matters where founder interests could reasonably diverge from Foundation interests. She has indicated her willingness to serve on the Foundation's Audit and Finance committee, and has offered her service on whatever additional committee she is asked to join. She commits an estimated two hours per week to Foundation business — a substantial and consistent contribution for a working professional carrying multiple state-level obligations. She draws no salary, no expense reimbursement, and no benefit from Foundation funds.