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Darryl! L.C. Moch, a member of UAW Local 1981/AFL-CIO, National Writers Union and a native of Los Angeles, California, comes from a union and organizing family. He currently resides in Washington, DC, serves as the Executive Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation and also provides consulting services to communities and non-profit organizations. He is also currently directing the Charm City Labor Chorus. His work as an organizer has spanned the country. He has served communities as a psychotherapist, advocate, community activist, performing artist, educator, political consultant, and ordained minister. His passion is creating opportunities that will empower, expose, and enlighten individuals and our collective communities. His activist and advocacy work has been rooted in social justice, equality, and quality of life issues for African-American/People of Color and minority communities, children, youth, families, sexual minority constituencies, people living with mental and physical challenges, the homeless, as well as people living with, and/or affected by, HIV/AIDS.

Darryl!, is a leader and has developed and trained leaders as well as become partners with and worked with community leaders on local, regional, national, and international levels. He has consulted or worked for various politicians and political campaigns, at every level. Since his early teens he has been an advocate for youth issue; particularly in education, mental health, and creative expression. He was a youth co-founded one of the nation’s first year-long NAACP ACT-SO programs, created various “psycho-edutainment” programs, after school & drug prevention programs, short-term intensive treatment programs (for both in-patient and out-patient mental health and substance abuse facilities) and other programs that bridge the relationship between the religious, social, and cultural arenas. His work on HIV/AIDS issues began in college as a reporter turned advocate on campus and has continued through various capacities across the nation.

Darryl!, is an ordained minister and has served in various organizations and ministries across the country. Currently he serves in ministry at InnerLight Ministries in Washington, DC. His work centers on social change, social justice, and equality for all people without distinction in order to ensure a good quality of life for all people. He served as an Executive Director, CFO, and/or board member for non-profit organizations including: ITLA, BroadArts Theatre, McKenzie River Gathering Foundation, MBK (My Brothaz Keeper), Inc., and others. He is a former editor, copy editor, program director, and features writer local and national magazines. He is also part of the Center for New Community program Which Way Forward, confronting anti-immigration wedge issues targeted to the African American community.

Darryl!, currently offers himself as a consultant, performing artist, motivational speaker/therapist, inspirational and liturgical minister, and a community activist. He is a published author, poet and has written, directed and produced several original productions including, Spheres Of Influence (premiered at Alfred University), Adolescence: Voices Inside My Head, A Symphony of People: In our own words, Phoenix Is Rising, and God’s Trombones: The Manifestation. Recently has edited Through It All; a history and retrospective story of Amos H. Lynch, the community, and the Black media in Columbus, Ohio; and Lady Lewis: Her Hats and Her Gloves; a biography of Ursel White Lewis, the first African American female philanthropist and patron of arts in Columbus, Ohio. He recently assisted in the editing of “Reclaiming Your Divine Birthright” by Bishop Kwabena A. Rainier Cheeks (forthcoming). Darryl!, is currently working on publishing “NubianSpirit” (a collection of motivational writings); and “Enduring Evil” (a look at child abuse and healing from it); and is developing a motivational experience “Becoming Your Ultimate Self Experience.”

Darryl!’s motto: “Remember to live in Love and let LOVE live in you, around you, through you, and… AS you.”