It All Begins Here
(cHI = Dr.) | cHI. Jeion I'M Green (They/Them) is a Gender-non-binary artist, photographer, award-winning filmmaker, and screenwriter whose practice operates as Performative Praxis - a self-directed scholarship rooted in the belief that sustained creative work, across disciplines and time, constitutes its own form of credentialing. Jeion treats the act of naming as inseparable from the act of making.
This philosophy animates their major collection Gesto Apparanthem (acts brought into appearance), a gathering of finished, unfinished, and discarded works that speak coherently only when held together — anchored alongside its theoretical counterpart Voluntas Auctum (will, expanded) - A sustained inquiry into will, authority, and representation.
Jeion holds a B.F.A from Parsons, The New School (New York City) where they pursued graduate studies at the same institution. They also hold a PhD in Visionary Narrative Architecture & Performative Praxis - a self-conferred doctorate from “Green University” (a university created as a part of Gesto Apparanthem), in the lineage of practice-as-research scholarship.
They are recognized for producing the Oscar-contending short Tribes, Flesh & Spirit, and Boys Don't Wear Dresses. Their television credits include Black-ish, Career Opportunities in Murder & Mayhem, Snowfall, Reasonable Doubt, The Jennifer Hudson Show, TED the series, and Unstoppable (starring Jennifer Lopez). They worked with Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program International team (2018–2019) and returned to Sundance in 2023. A 2024 & 2025 DisAbility Belongs Entertainment Lab finalist, Jeion is a proud advocate for LGBTQ+ and disabled communities in the film industry and serves on the board of the Baltimore County Art Guild.
Jeion is the founder of Soleath, LLC - a 501(c)(3) nonprofit - founded in 2023 to build the spaces that should have already existed: where art, healing, community, and ambition are not separate things but expressions of one commitment. The guiding principle: the future is built by the people who return to build it.
