Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Khalil.Anthony Peebles is the Arts-in-Education Director for Youth Speaks. Working directly with services that provide an entry for educators into Youth Speaks, Khalil creates and develops professional development and educational guides that work to maintain relationships between organization and teacher base. An educator, Khalil has worked as a Literature teacher in SFUSD and continues his work as an advocate for young people through his professional commitment to youth and their voice. 

As an artist, he began utilizing words and images in his choreography and cultural dance construction in the early to mid nineties. A natural movement-artist and creative spirit, Khalil began to conceptualize performance that dealt with societal issues and frustrations, in an effort to speak back to power and have a voice. These performances would make up the canon of his political performance work. After graduating from college and completing his teacher training at Brighton University, in England, he returned to Chicago and began working in spoken word and modern dance. Khalil joined a radical performance arts troupe, fear of freedom, that utilized concepts and theory developed by Paulo Freire, and other revolutionary theorists in order to create performances that spoke of revolution and justice through movement and "active-dialogue". Traveling throughout the continental us, as well as Amsterdam, the fear of freedom troupe broke off into solo artists and began creating a complete show entitled 'works in progress', from "practicing liberation people." 

After his stint with fear of freedom, Khalil landed in San Francisco in 1999, in pursuit of more performance and dance opportunities. He continued to explore solo work and documenting his political views and responses through movement, words and film. Through dance, Khalil received a scholarship to dance in salvador, bahia, brazil in 2002. At home in brazil, khalil learned traditional Brazilian dance and has encorporated these styles into his solo work. As well, the political climate of Brazil and its historical context enabled Khalil to gain a better appreciation of struggle through movement and resistance. Khalil is currently working on various conceptual pieces dealing with police brutality in the schools as well as police terrorism, (Thurgood Marshall Academic High School 10/11/02), militarism and the prison industrial complex. Khalil received a masters in humanities in 2004, from New College of California. His thesis was entitled, greyhound, a collection of stories of black male homosexuality, educational suicide, prison systems, drug abuse, loss and finding oneself in the rumble. He is also completing a cd entitled, sunshine, a collection of poems turned into songs.