Tyree Boyd-Pates

Principal of NOMMO Cultural Strategies

Tyree Boyd-Pates is a Los Angeles-based museum curator, historian, professor, author, 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 routinely shares his expertise as a lecturer at Harvard, UCLA, USC, Spelman, and Morehouse College. He has also organized and moderated public conversations with Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Ava DuVernay, Ruth Carter, Terry Crews, Rakim, Chuck D, and KRS-One. He has also authored books and consulted the Smithsonian Institution, the Getty Museum, the Broad Museum, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic on various successful projects and exhibits.

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, studios, and companies 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.

Tyree was named Civic Media Fellow with the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC in 2021 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.