THIRTY-THREE DEGREE (TTD) is not a Company, Club, or an Organization—it is Everett N. Kelsey Jr.’s living identity framework. A geometry of resistance, it serves as a multigenerational compass through which he channels the theological clarity of his grandfather, Dr. George D. Kelsey; the economic foresight of his father, Everett N. Kelsey Sr.; and his own creative defiance in the realms of artificial intelligence, media, and civil infrastructure.

TTD is a lineage in motion—a dynamic operating system built not of code, but of memory, ethics, and authorship. It’s the sacred geometry through which Everett activates a sovereign digital future. Rather than an entity, it is a continuity. A boiling point. A symbolic architecture for resisting erasure, reclaiming narrative, and reprogramming justice.

The name 'Thirty-Three Degree' symbolizes transformation—the spiritual temperature at which frozen systems begin to flow, and the age at which Jesus completed his earthly ministry. It represents Everett as a third-generation Black public intellectual, infusing faith, strategic diplomacy, and civic insurgency into a cohesive ecosystem.

1. Dr. George D. Kelsey (Grandfather)
   Theologian, ethicist, and mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Kelsey rooted the Civil Rights Movement in moral clarity and nonviolent resistance. His legacy is the spiritual north star of Thirty-Three Degree.
2. Everett N. Kelsey Sr. (Father)
   As profiled in Ebony Magazine (1967), Everett Sr. was a Navy officer, Columbia-trained economist, Ford Foundation fellow in Tanzania, and pioneering African-American international banker. His life is the engine of transnational empowerment in the ecosystem.
3. Everett N. Kelsey Jr. (Founder)
   Filmmaker turned technologist, Everett Jr. is founder of BLKMKT AI, Digital Sovereignty Coalition Fifth Industrial Revolution AI. His vision is the convergence point where lineage becomes future.

1. Spiritual Resonance: 33 is the age of Christ at crucifixion—representing sacrifice, transformation, and resurrection.
2. Generational Structure: Third generation. Three distinct but interlinked moral legacies. A trinity of public service.
3. Thermodynamic Symbolism: Thirty-three degrees is the phase change—where ice begins to melt.

• ORGANIC POLYESTER PRODUCTIONS Everett’s original filmmaking home founded in 2004, exploring liminal spaces of the marginalized through experimental film.
• BLKMKT TECH An ethical AI company designing sovereign machine intelligence and anti-monoculture systems.
• BLKMKT AI The deployment and integration arm, translating BLKMKT Tech’s technologies into operational infrastructure for civic coalitions—Building: OliveGPT, Ethnographic Repository, and Civic Machina, designed by BLKMKT Tech.
• BLKMKT MEDIA A revolutionary storytelling lab that produces media to inform and activate—Supports 5IR AI.
• FIFTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AI (5IR AI) A video platform dedicated to raising civic consciousness about AI governance and digital civil rights. The public “Town Crier” voice of the Digital Civil Rights Movement.
• DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY COALITION (DSC) Founded in 2025, DSC is a nonprofit infrastructure that organizes against techno-authoritarianism through federated coalitions and rights-based governance.

To build a pluralist, sovereign, and culturally intelligent digital future through ethical AI, narrative power, and multigenerational purpose—rooted in justice, dignity, and authorship.

Thirty-Three Degree is not a brand or institution. It is a geometry of resistance. A living lineage of faith, finance, film, and future-building that now finds its realization in code, coalitions, and civic truth.

“Where the pulpit meets the protocol. Where the currency is dignity. And the blueprint is memory.”