Biography
(Chi (Pronounced: She) = Dr.). Dr. (Chi) Jeion (He-awn) 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. A native of Baltimore, MD, Jeion's methodology is grounded in five interlocking practitioner philosophies: The Alarm as Temporal Authorship (every creative intention set in the past is a message from another self - the past self authoring directives toward a future self who does not yet exist); Future Truths (the recognition that ideas formed in real time can be confirmed by the external world through acausal resonance, where the world reflects back the pattern being generated); The Sealed Image (the covenant of intentional singularity, where the act of capture and the object of capture are inseparable, and the making and the made are the same object); Intent vs. Impact vs. Intent vs. Intent (the four-term framework documenting the space where systemic intent, harmful intent, and the declarant's intent of survival were never made to meet, leaving impact as the only present element across all of them); and The Cultural Correction (the practice of building competing systems that begin from the assumption that the excluded talent already exists, the work already has value, and the archive already constitutes evidence). Operating through a neologism mindset - the invention of language and frameworks as essential artistic tools - 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). Within this framework sit The End Degree (a self-determined credential in Performative Praxis), Screen Test (a talent discovery competition and cultural correction), and Project Ocean Shores (originating as the script How It Started and evolving into a sustained inquiry into will, authority, and representation).
Jeion holds a BFA in Photography with a concentration in Lighting from Parsons, The New School (New York City) where they pursued graduate studies in Film and Performance Art & Theory 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. The degree was conferred on May 18, 2026 - based on 30+ years of lived experience and 8+ years of documented study in code-switching as performative praxis, with accompanying dissertation work positioning neurodiversity as visionary narrative architecture rather than as disability alone.
They are recognized for producing the Oscar-contending short Tribes, Flesh & Spirit, and Boys Don't Wear Dresses - led entirely by a disabled (Autistic) cast with a majority disabled and diverse crew. 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) in the Production Accessibility Department. 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 based in Baltimore County, Maryland, 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. Born from personal experience navigating addiction recovery without access to a space that integrated art, community, and self-reclamation, Soleath operates from the conviction that art is not supplemental to healing - it is the structure of it. The act of making, witnessing, and being witnessed is itself a form of recovery from exclusion, from invisibility, and from systems never built with historically excluded communities in mind. Soleath's areas of practice span arts and cultural programming, recovery and wellness, culinary arts, sustainable AI literacy for artists, Screen Test as a national talent discovery platform, and a physical community anchor in Baltimore County. The guiding principle: the future is built by the people who return to build it.
Dr. (Chi) Jeion IsaiaMona Green, V.N.A. Ph.D. Performative Praxis
