Kyle Fulkerson -- Producer/Registration

Kyle Fulkerson entered the Leather Community in 1998 in Atlanta, GA, and has served in many different entities, including the Atlanta boys of Leather, Tribe, host of Queer Energy Night at the Sanctuary and as Mr. Georgia Olympus Leather 2000. For SouthEast LeatherFest, he has been fund-raising chair, registration chair, secretary, and for the last three years, Co-Producer. His commitment is to education and family.

Catherine Gross -- Producer/Operations

Catherine Gross is an educator and certified Life Coach. She teaches classes that focus on relationships, play-oriented BDSM skills, Dominance and Submission, improving your sex life, gender, house management, activism and theory. She has been active in various communities for a number of years. She has served on several local and national boards, judged contests, staffed conferences, emceed and produced fund-raisers for various charities/organizations.

Catherine has presented classes at conferences such as LIL, Leatherfest, Leather University, Boys Camp, International Ms. Leather, Pantheon, TES, and many more. She is the recipient of Black Rose's Vaughn Keith National Educator Award presented November 2002, Pantheon of Leather Southeast Regional Award 2006 and Business of the Year (FetishAuctioneer.com) 2006.

Girl Kim --Contestant Coordinator

girl Kim has been an out and proud Leather Woman since 2000 when she was introduced into the Atlanta Leather community. While she does identify with being a Leather Woman, it was in 2004 that she found her place in the community as a Leather girl. She travels the nation volunteering at numerous events, emceeing, speaking on various topics and promoting the Leather girl movement. girl Kim has represented the Southeast as Ms SELF 2004 and went on to earn the title of American Leather girl 2005. She now serves on the SELF board as Contestant Coordinator where she hopes to bring her positive experience with Leather titles to new contestants and title holders. While she is proud of her accomplishments and continued service to the community, her greatest pride and honor is in being the owned property and wife of Sir Gavin.

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Boi Alex -- Volunteer Coordinator

Eclectic. Femme. Boi. Poly. Switch. Queer. Multifaceted? Oh, just a little. Gayla and alex are two very different sides of the same unique coin.

Gayla has been active in the BDSM community since 2001 after spending years in the lifestyle in a more private setting. She served as a member of CAPE Leadership until 2007 as everything from Event Coordinator to Member Liaison. She is still very much a part of that group and will always consider it home.

Alex came about when she started exploring a new path as a leather boi in 2007. Alex is happily in service to Sir Nicholas and continues learning what it means to be a boi, to serve, and what leather as a path means, under his guidance.

In either femme or boi mode; heels or boots; her main focus is her families, both chosen and given but her interests are too many to list. She resides in AL (Yes, really! AL!) with her partner, their girl and other family.

Beth -- Marketing and Public Relations Chair/ Program Book Editor

Beth is a poly masochistic service-oriented girl, who identifies strongly with the term "property." She grew up in Tennessee, landed in Louisiana after grad school for design, and it was there, in 1999, that she attended her first BDSM events with a group in Baton Rouge. (During her time there, the same group evolved to be known as the Red Stick Volunteer Players, or RSVP.) Since then, she has enjoyed events in New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, New York City and Atlanta. Even though she chose to move to New York in 2005 for work, Louisiana (and RSVP) is still the place she considers her BDSM home. Currently, she travels -- a lot -- to stay in touch with those who are close to her, has attended SELF since 2006, and is excited to announce that she can iron 31 1/2 t-shirts with one can of starch. She is owned by Steven Hagen.

Nic -- Accountant / Registration Chair

Slave Nic was born and raised in a suburb of Chicago, IL. He has been involved in Leather since 1998 and moved to Atlanta in 2003. He has the privilege of being owned by Lady Catherine Gross; through his willingness to obey she is educating him and molding him into the slave he longs to be.

His many passions include bloodsports, all things sharp, age play, bondage, edge play, rough body play, puppy play (Blahnik, named by his owner after great shoes!) and perfecting his Sign Language skills. He is currently a Sign Language Interpreter. He has been on the SouthEast LeatherFest Committee since 2004.

MJ -- Vendor Chair

MJ has been a member of the Atlanta community since 1999. She produces Twisted Toyland Atlanta (formerly Atlanta Fetish Flea Market), an annual event that benefits various charities and people in the BDSM realm. She has worked on SELF since 2005 and loves the opportunities it has given her to meet new people and learn new things.

Lizzy -- Sponsor and Advertising Chair

Lizzy is a self-proclaimed shoe whore and has been known to wander dungeons looking at shoes instead of faces. She identifies as a service-oriented submissive, masochist, and brat (although she has become fond of the term creative disobedience). She discovered there was an actual name for BDSM and D/S and other people like her in 1996 through an online telnet community named Iron Rose run by Kim Attica and Ketzer. She has lived in Atlanta for the past decade although spent a good part of her twenties hopping coasts. She has only recently started getting involved back in the scene after stepping away to have her girls, whom she fondly refers to as her littlest dommes.

Lady Tantalize -- Pro-Domme Community Liaison

Lady T., more formally known as Lady Tatiana Tantalize, is a Lifestyle Mistress and Sadistic Southern Belle. She is a part-time Professional Dominatrix and Crossdressing Consultant specializing in full M2F transformations who has been enjoying the Atlanta fetish and leather community for ten years, and is also an active member of the trans-community. She considers kink to be born in her soul and has passions for whipping, caning, corsets and shoes. While quite the party girl, she takes her leather education and evolving ideologies very seriously. She identifies as a Sadistic Dominant and considers herself omnisexual, being open to service, submission and/or slavery from all gender affiliations or sexual orientations. She practices BDSM on her own terms by incorporating various facets of TPE, EPE and IE into her lifestyle philosophies. She is one of the organizers and co-hostess of a local lifestyle munch and a Moderator on a popular ProDomme message board. Lady Tantalize can often be heard speaking out to lifestylers regarding Professional Domination in efforts to shed light and generate positivity between the two worlds, and is a staunch advocate and supporter of solidarity and unity among all alternative lifestyles.

Steven Hagen -- Web Manager

Steven fills a unique niche within our leather community. This Leatherman is proud of his ability to serve. His experiences expand our cultural definition of what a leather slave is. Steven holds a firm belief that you don't have to be a traditional "boy" to be successful in the leather community.

Steven has been working with our community since 1999, starting as an organizer for a heterosexual bdsm dinner club, 3D, in Charleston SC. This led to a leadership role in South Carolina where he helped start similar clubs in Wilmington NC, Myrtle Beach SC, Columbia SC, and Savannah GA. These experiences worked to build the foundation of his lifestyle knowledge.

Trying to better understand the leather tradition, Steven joined the Trident Knight Leather/Levi club, also in Charleston SC. Attending several leather events started to broaden his outlook on what the lifestyle included. During his tenure in the Knights, he trained as a bootblack and in 2002 he placed 1st runner up at IML Bootblack Competition in Chicago.

In October of 2008, Steven moved to Richmond, VA for occupational reasons. He is active in the bootblack community, a graphic artist who supports several leather organizations and a volunteer for different leather events.

Tabitha -- Pre-Event and Weekend Fun Chair

Tabitha is a bisexual submissive local to Atlanta. She was a regular SELF volunteer for 4 years before joining the SELF board in 2008. Along with being a supporter of SELF, she is an active member of Whippersnappers and MAsT Atlanta. She also assists MJ with Twisted Toyland in December. Tabitha has her Bachelor's in Psychology and is currently working on her Master's in Professional Counseling so she can practice as a sexual educator and sexual therapist.

Boy Harley -- Staging God

Boy harley has been lighting, building, loading in and out, and fixing sets, lights, special effects, and sound for theatre, corporate events, film and video, high school productions and even religious broadcasting. He has handled the staging for SELF since 1997, as well as managed the staging for SE Olympus a few times, and various other leather events.

Boy harley was trained in Old Guard at the Sanctuary of a Dark Angel in 1997 and took part in helping the Sanctuary run. Primarily a submissive bottom, boy harley has been known to switch on occasion. His interests are: bondage, leather, exhibitionism, mindplay, electricity, watersports, wax, and shaving (not necessarily in that order). He has only one piercing (left earlobe), but could see getting one or both nipples pierced, if done in the context of a scene.

Stacia -- Workshop Liaison

Stacia is 32 and a native to Atlanta. A relative newcomer to the scene, Stacia has been around for about 3 years with her full time love slave/husband. She is a sadist discovering 24/7 D/s dynamics, and is excited about the opportunity for growth and education in D/s relationships. Stacia has served on the board for Whippersnappers for the last year.