Genesis Israeli Rose Schmitz Briggs Be (born December 5) also known as G.Be, is an American recording artist, painter and activist. She is best known for her work to remove the Confederate Emblem from the MS State Flag. Her work has been featured in Billboard, The Associated Press, Matter of Fact with Soledad Obrien and VICE. She is a scholar of NYU Catherine B. Reynolds Program for Social Entrepreneurship. Genesis is a graduate of NYU's political science department at CAS as well as the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts. In 2010 Be accepted a fellowship from The Hip-Hop Education Center at NYU, which was founded by her longtime mentor Martha Diaz.