A. Prince Albert III, affectionately known as Prince The Culture Keeper™, is a human rights advocate, a professor of law and world cultures, and an award-winning multidisciplinary artist. His life's work stands at the intersection of culture, law, and technology, driven by a single conviction — "communities that shaped our world must not be erased from its future." As a DJ/music producer and filmmaker, The Culture Keeper™ creates dynamic soundscapes and immersive imagery to educate the world about the enduring power of Afro/Indigenous folk traditions. As a lawyer and policy strategist, Prince builds legal and technical infrastructures to protect cultural traditions.
For over a decade, Prince served as a technology policy counsel for civil rights, human rights, and consumer rights organizations in Washington, D.C. In 2018, he founded Goldwater Ventures, a strategic advisory firm that equips mission-driven companies to navigate complex public affairs landscapes and deploy immersive media and emerging technologies in service of human rights and cultural sustainability. The firm has advised on Emmy-nominated film projects and guided cultural organizations in deploying generative AI and AR/VR as ethical, human-centered tools to promote cultural narratives, preserve dying languages, and rescue disappearing folkloric traditions.
When executive orders dismantled federal cultural funding and shuttered much of the firm in 2025, Prince founded The Culture Keepers Circle, a national grassroots effort to track the billions of cultural resources in federal custody. He built and launched The Circle’s Cultural Resource Threat Tracker™, the only AI-powered tool that systematically documents federal policy actions across 17 agencies and three presidential administrations that threaten the cultural heritage of Indigenous, African-descendant, Latiné, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities. It identifies, verifies, and catalogs hundreds of federal actions, enabling advocates, litigators, and journalists to query cultural threats in real time. At Georgetown University Law Center, Prince teaches the world’s first Cultural Sustainability Law course, engaging future advocates on how cultural communities maintain, revitalize, and reimagine their lifeways.
A U.S. Navy veteran and former high school instructor, Prince earned his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center as a Global Law Scholar, an M.A. in French magna cum laude from Middlebury College, and dual B.A. degrees in Philosophy and French summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from the illustrious Morehouse College.