Pierce Freelon is a Grammy-nominated musician, author, and educator from Durham, North Carolina. He is the co-creator of Beat Making Lab, an Emmy Award-winning PBS web series and is the writer, composer and co-director of the PBS animated series The History of White People in America, an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival. His Grammy-nominated Children’s Music album Black to the Future has been featured on NPR, Billboard and MSNBC. His debut Children's picture book, Daddy Daughter Day will be released with Little, Brown books this Father’s Day. Freelon is a former Durham City Councilman, a husband and a father of two based in Durham, North Carolina.