Kamal A.M. Al Mansour is an imagemaker, visual culturalist, digerati, and writer. He was the founder of AfroLink Software, the first Afrocentric interactive multimedia software company. He is currently the Creative Director of artGriot, an online gallery and art studio. As an artist, he has exhibited in galleries, colleges and universities, and museums across the U.S. He has won numerous awards for his artwork, and is in numerous collections. He holds a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a BA from UCLA, where he majored in Political Science, and minored in African and African-American Studies.