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The Incubator for Executive Leaders of Color Program Alumni

2024 Incubator for Executive Leaders of Color

Kat Almirañez, Associate Artistic Director, The 52nd Street Project

Mauricio Bayona, Artistic Director, Los Herederos

Christian Camacho-Light, Executive Director, A.I.R. Gallery

Brittni Collins, Director of Public Art, Powerhouse Arts

Iyvon E, Artistic Director, The Parsnip Ship

Atiba Edwards, President & CEO, Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Deadria Harrington, Producing Artistic Leader/Managing Director, The Movement Theatre Company

Lindsay Harris, Co-Director, Recess

Jinny Khanduja, Executive Director, CUE Art Foundation

David King, Director of Education, The Apollo Theater

Queena Ko, Director of Education, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum 

Kimaada Le Gendre, Director of Education, Queens Museum

Adetoro Makinde, President | Co-Founder, Women Independent Producers

Salvador Muñoz, Director of Public Programs, Poster House

Rebecca Mzengi Corey, Managing Director, Open Source Gallery

Sofia Shaula Reeser del Rio, Associate Director of Programs, Curator, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center

Ghislaine Sabiti, Director of the Bead Project, Urban Glass

Ana Beatriz Sepúlveda-Echegaray, Associate Director, Performance Space New York

This program is made possible with the support of The Altman Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation.

All affiliations listed are from the time that they took part in the program.

2023 Incubator for Executive Leaders of Color

Denise Adusei, Executive Director, Bronx Children’s Museum

Rob Arnold, Executive Director, Poets House, Inc.

Kevin Benoit, Executive Director, Parle Endeavors

Sonya Chung, Deputy Director, Film Forum

Morgan Cuffie, Executive Director, The Dream Center Harlem

Tareake Dorill, Executive Director, Dorill Initiative

Brandi Holt, Managing Director, the feath3r theory

Judy Yin-Chi Lee, Chief Program Officer, Maestra Music

Jesus Lopez-Jensen, Deputy Director, Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA)

Malini Singh McDonald, Founder, Theatre Beyond Broadway

Aaron L McKinney, Executive Director, Hi-ARTS

Ryan Morales Green, Executive Director, Latiné Musical Theatre Lab

Niya Nicholson, Managing Director, MOVE|NYC|

Maria Ponce Sevilla, Executive Director, Transnational Villages Network/Red de Pueblos Trasnacionales

Candace Thompson-Zachery, Director of Programming and Justice Initiatives, Dance/NYC

Amos White V, President & Founder, The Artists Forum

Amanda Zhang, CO-Executive Director, 爻 yáo collaborative

Wenting Zhang, Director, Tea Arts & Culture

This program is made possible with the support of The Altman Foundation.

All affiliations listed are from the time that they took part in the program.

2022 Incubator for Executive Leaders of Color

Bianca Bailey, Community Engagement and Education Manager, New York Live Arts

Dani Barlow, Foundation Director, Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation

Christine Chen, Executive Director, STREB Inc.

Christiamilda Correa, Development Director, Reel Works d/b/a Reel Teen Filmmaking Inc.

Quanice Floyd, Executive Director, National Guild for Community Arts Education

Suman Gollamudi, Executive Director, Indo-American Arts Council

Gabriel de Guzman, Director of Arts and Chief Curator, Wave Hill

Jared Jackson, Program Director, Literary Programs and Emerging Voices Fellowship, PEN America

Zatara McIntyre, Senior Manager, Internships & Alumni Programs, Free Arts NYC

Alison Mixon, Assistant Director & Faculty Director, Brooklyn Ballet

Penny Pun, Managing Director, National Disability Theatre

Christina Riley, Director of Communications, The Shed

Clarivel Ruiz, Executive Director, Dominicans Love Haitians Movement

Heryte Tefery Tequame, Director of Communications and Digital Projects, Queens Museum

Mosa Tsay, Executive Director, Groupmuse Foundation

Larry Weekes, President, Fulton Art Fair, Inc.

Frances Wu Giarratano, Deputy Director, Independent Curators International (ICI) 

Ray Zeng, Director of Programs & Key Initiatives, Committee of 100

This program is made possible with the support of The Altman Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

All affiliations listed are from the time that they took part in the program.

2022 Incubator for Arts & Culture Leaders of Color in the Tri-State Area

Jeremy Dennis; President; Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc.; Shinnecock Indian Reservation, Southampton, NY

Adriana Devers-Rodriguez; 1st Vice President; Westbury Arts; Westbury, NY

Natasha Dyer; Deputy Director, Newark Trust for Education; Newark, NJ

Kolton Harris; Program Manager, Connecticut Office of the Arts; Hartford, CT

Tianding He; Founding Artistic Director; B·O·N·D International Virtual Performance Festival; Jersey City, NJ

Marcia Heard; Co-Founder and Executive Director; Ivy Hill Vailsburg Center for Arts Culture And Community Activism aka ACCA Creates!; Newark, NJ

Taneshia Nash Laird; President and CEO; Newark Symphony Hall; Newark, NJ

Madeline Lora; Program Director; Inner City Ensemble; Paterson, NJ

Shamain McAllister; Community Impact Manager; International Festival of Arts & Ideas; New Haven, CT

Sean McLeod; Artistic Director; Kaleidoscope Dance Theater Inc.; Auburn, NY

Brishen Miller; Lead Producer; Passage Theater Company; Trenton, NJ

Gregory Osborne; Artistic Director; Progressive Theater, a NJ Nonprofit Corporation; Maplewood, NJ

Kiran Rajagopalan; Interim Executive Director; Art Horizons; Englewood, NJ

Yasmeen Siddiqui; Founding Director; Minerva Projects; Pine Plains, NY

Amanda Stephen; Director; Poughkeepsie Performing Arts Academy (a unit of the Boys & Girls Club of Newburgh); Poughkeepsie, NY

Estrellx Supernova; Cosmic Energetic Orchestrator (CEO), Creative/Executive Director; The Cosmic Angels / The School of Tenderness; Nomadic (began in West New York, NJ)

This program is made possible with the support of a consortium of funders, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Teiger Foundation, and the Cy Twombly Foundation, and was designed in partnership with a group of arts and cultural leaders in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York State (outside of NYC) and participants of NYSCA/NYFA Community Leaders Program. 

We want to thank: Angie Durrell, Founder & Executive Director of INTEMPO; Renee Flagler, Executive Director of Girls Inc. of Long Island; Deonté Griffin-Quick, Director of Programs and Services at NJ Theater Alliance; Armand Hall, Executive and Artistic Director of The ROCmusic Collaborative; Nydia Padilla Rodriguez, Founder & Artistic Director of Borinquen Dance Theatre, Inc.; Alison Scott-Williams, President at Studio in a School NYC; Anita Thomas, Executive Director of Carolyn Dorfman Dance; Theodore Thomas, Executive Director of New England Dance Theater; and Diego Vásquez, Communications Manager at The Real Art Ways.

All affiliations listed are from the time that they took part in the program.

2021 Incubator for Executive Leaders of Color

Suhaly Bautista-Carolina; Senior Managing Educator, Audience Development and Engagement; Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York, NY

Tahnia Belle; Managing Director; Urban Bush Women; Brooklyn, NY

Jane Cho; Director of Administration; Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College; Queens, NY

Andrew Clarke; Executive Director; Braata Productions; Queens, NY

Stephanie Cunningham; Creative Director; Museum Hue; Brooklyn, NY

Alana Francis de Govia; Director of Programs; The Africa Center; New York, NY

Andrea Gordillo; Development Director; The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center; New York, NY

Aya Hayashi; Development Director; People’s Theatre Project; New York, NY

Sophie Lo; Director of Visitor Services and Program Management; Museum at Eldridge Street; New York, NY

Natalie Marrero; Executive Director; Everybody Dance Now!; Brooklyn, NY

David Martine (Chiricahua Apache/Shinnecock-Montauk); Deputy Director; American Indian Artists Inc.; New York, NY

Christopher Núñez; Program Director; Movement Research; New York, NY

Kyoung Park; Artistic Director; Kyoung’s Pacific Beat; Brooklyn, NY

Malaika Queano; Co-Executive Director; Kinding Sindaw; New York, NY

Kimberly Shariff; Chief Administrative Officer; American Ballet Theatre; New York, NY

Carl Sylvestre; Director of Development; Theatre Forward; New York, NY

This program is made possible with the support of Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

All affiliations listed are from the time that they took part in the program.

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