Michael Toombs

Toombs is the founder of Storytellers Inc., an artists collective that designs and implements work with inner city youth and children in urban communities in Kansas and Missouri.

"[7] In 2002, Toombs started a project that acknowledges the growing number of homicides in Kansas City.

[8] In 2018, he led a team of nearly 30 professional artists in creating the Brown v. Board Mural Project: Legacy & Vision.

This massive mural is located across the street from Monroe School, which is part of the Brown v. Board National Historical Park.

In interviews, Toombs describes himself as growing up in the urban core of Kansas City and the influence of art in his life as a person of color.