Barnabas Crosby is a Brooklyn-based educator, visual storyteller, and native of Cleveland. In 2010, Barnabas started Whiskey Boys Ent., a storytelling vehicle to share stories of Everyday Black Living through black and white stills and moving pictures. In 2015 while working alongside the BKLYN Combine and Humanities NY, Barnabas created the annual reading and conversation platform Baldwin + Friends. Trained as a playwright and dramaturg, Barnabas uses education, art, and media to teach young people how to craft their individual and cultural narratives.

Barnabas has been the Design Trust for Public Space Photo Urbanism Fellow in 2020 and 2026. Learn more about his Holding Court exhibition and work leading youth photography workshops as a Teaching Fellow on the theme of "Home Without Boundaries" here.