Meet the small and spirited team of The Big Dig | Chicago.

Beuloria, a west side Chicago native turned global explorer, launched her media career hosting music shows from alternative rock to jazz at stations like WDGC and WDCB. She's co-hosted an op-ed podcast, led a multicultural Meetup group in Chicago, and brings her passion for culture to life through food, music, and dance. Her career in international trade and food manufacturing has taken her across five continents—blending global insight with local flavor.

Juelle is an unapologetic chaser of beauty and the sublime with an insatiable appetite for all things arts and culture. She's a practitioner of bravery, a life-long learner and always hip to embark on new creative adventures fueled by her consistent optimism. Living overseas has widened her worldview, she is a French trained urban planner/designer, filmmaker, a cinephile with a penchant for independent and international cinema, an independent curator and a producer of arts-related public events and programming.

Ronia is a world-trekking military brat with a nomadic spirit who’s spent her life immersed in arts and culture—crafting stories, building brands, and amplifying mission-driven work. She has led communications across the performing and visual arts, creative placemaking, higher education, and social enterprise sectors. Known for doing a lot with a little, she brings resourcefulness, sharp instincts, and a healthy dose of wit to every project. She’s also an opera fanatic, fascinated by ancient forensics, and maintains a devastatingly expensive tea and teaware habit. Learn more or book her services at roniaholmes.com.

Michael is a multi-talented singer/songwriter, recording engineer, and sound designer whose career spans music and film. He began performing his original songs as a teenager and quickly found himself drawn to the art of recording, spending time behind the board as well as on stage. His passion for the craft led him to earn a degree in music engineering and production from the renowned Berklee College of Music. Never one to stop creating, Michael went on to earn his MFA in cinema production from DePaul University, where he has shared his expertise in sound and audio storytelling as a faculty member for over fifteen years.