Our Board of Directors
Welcome to pi
we are all just a peace of the whole.
Jilda Farias
Board Chair & Director
Jilda Farias is a vocal coach, music educator, and health & wellness practitioner based in Kingsville, Ontario. Her professional identity is shaped by a lifelong dedication to the arts and to teaching—something she describes as inspired by “passionate and motivated teachers” whose influence instilled in her a drive to “bring forth and pass on my interpretation of living an artful life.”
Jilda has over eight years of experience as a Vocal Coach at Sing Well Studio, alongside a diverse background in tour guiding, content creation, medical administration, customer service, and arts leadership. Her work spans music education, community choir direction, winery and tourism interpretation, and hospital clerical roles, a range that reflects her belief in bringing artistry into every setting where people live and work.
Jilda holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music (2008–2012), where she also completed a Professional Studies Post-Graduate Diploma (2013–2014). She began her formal training at Interlochen Arts Academy, earning her High School Diploma in Vocal Performance (2007–2008).
Alexandrea Tocco
Founder, Board Treasurer & Executive Director
Alexandrea Tocco is an artist-scientist, classically trained vocalist, actor, and composer, and the Founder and Executive Director of ATPi: The ATP Institute of Arts & Sciences, an interdisciplinary nonprofit investigating sound as the most efficient medium for energy transfer between living systems. Her work positions the voice and body as calibrated bioacoustic research apparatus, integrating performance-based methodology with applied clinical, palliative, and ecological field research.
Alexandrea holds a BFA with Honors in Theatre from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is a dual-major graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy in Classical Voice and Theater Arts. A YoungArts Finalist, she made her professional debut at sixteen in Naples Florida and has appeared as a featured soloist with the Gulf Coast Symphony, at The Town Hall in New York City, and at venues from New World Stages to the Peabody Auditorium. She is a national recognized artists with the Young Arts Foundation. Over the past 10 years she has studied silence and meditation practices while combining breath work and cognition and regulation techniques. Instructing, innovating and invigorating. She also serves at NYU Alumni Ambassador for North Florida.
Her current research showcases the live transmitted voice, observed as a regulatory presence at the threshold of life, extreme environments and cross-species acoustic field research. Her heart and mind meet when documenting dolphin and avian response to live classical vocal practice.
Jesse Havea
Director of Activism & Hope
Jesse Havea is a strategist, activist, and cultural communicator at the intersection of politics, identity, and digital media. A proud Polynesian New Yorker known to many as Brita Filter, the barrier-breaking drag entertainer and LGBTQ+ advocate from RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12, Jesse brings a decade of audience-building, narrative strategy, and grassroots organizing to his work behind the scenes.
As Social Media Director at The Almanor, Jesse helps shape how a new generation of political and cultural media reaches its audience. During the 2024 presidential election, he worked with When We All Win on the Harris campaign, creating engaging political content for TikTok and Instagram across swing states. He is also the creator, producer, and host of Fascism Is a Drag, a quarterly sold-out benefit show raising money for Refuse Fascism NYC.
As National Co-Chair of Drag Out the Vote, Jesse helped mobilize thousands of voters nationwide. He has represented the drag community at the Democratic National Committee's LGBTQ+ Gala introducing Vice President Kamala Harris, received the Marsha P. Johnson Award in 2022, and worked with OutRight International at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69). He trained at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA).
Erica Gagne
Honorary Board Member & Advisor
Erica Gagné is an architectural designer and planner who serves as an Advisor and honorary non-voting board member of Peace ATPi, Inc. Currently practicing Architectural Design + Planning at Demattei Wong Architecture in Orlando, Florida, she brings nearly two decades of experience across the architecture, engineering, and construction industry to the organization.
Erica's path through the AEC world has been broad and untraditional. She began her career during the recession as an office manager for a structural and civil engineering firm, then moved into business development and marketing before stepping fully into design. She has served as Senior Architectural Designer at Rhodes+Brito Architects and CPH, Inc., and as a Project Manager in New Smyrna Beach. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from The University of Texas at San Antonio and is a LEED Accredited Professional.
At her core, Erica is an architect and a problem solver, known for spotting conflicts before they surface and finding thoughtful, balanced solutions. Her philosophy aligns naturally with Peace ATPi's mission: architecture, to her, is about more than buildings. It is about people, process, and building our environment with thoughtful and healing intentions.
“Some people study the ocean. Hailey listens to it!
Buy stickers and artwork created custom by Hailey at @diveatpi and support a homegrown artist, field research at Peace ATPi, and $3.14 of each sticker is pledged to Save the Manatee Org.”
Hailey Anderson
Arts & Environmental Student Representative ‘27
Hailey Anderson is a marine ecologist, researcher, and artist whose work centers on the connection between ocean soundscapes and ecosystem health. An Eckerd College student with academic grounding in Biological Oceanography, Global Animal Studies, and Environmental Microeconomics, her field experience includes a marine science study abroad program in Cuba. She is SCUBA certified and brings both scientific rigor and genuine curiosity to her work.
As a member of ATPi's founding Summer 2026 cohort, Hailey served a dual role from the start, assisting in the formation of Peace ATPi, Inc. while running organization and business management alongside her marine research. Her fieldwork spans the Space Coast and the Florida State Park system, where she collected underwater video and audio across multiple dive sites. Her college practicum paper, "The Role of Marine Soundscapes in Assessing Ecosystem Health," integrates peer-reviewed ecoacoustics literature with this ATPi field research.
Hailey now serves as an honorary non-voting board member and was just elected Board Secretary of Peace ATPi, Inc. As our Arts and Environment Student Representative; She is lead diver and works to continue education within the organization, such as she joined ATPi at the Wild Dolphin Project's Wild Ocean Science Summit, and her artwork will be showcased to raise funds for the organization's work.
