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Ali Rosa-Salas is a curator based in Lenapehoking. She is the Artistic Director of Abrons Arts Center and an Associate Curator for the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.

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Diya Vij is the Associate Curator at Creative Time. Over the past decade, she has held programming, curatorial, and communications positions at major New York City Institutions including the Queens Museum, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the High Line. She works to critically investigate the evolving role of public art in politics and civic life.

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Janet Wong is the associate artistic director of New York Live Arts and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. She is originally from Hong Kong and has lived in Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Berlin before finding roots in New York City, located in Lenapehoking.

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Alejandra Duque Cifuentes is an immigrant, activist, artist, producer, and educator. She is Dance/NYC Executive Director. Ms. Duque Cifuentes serves as a board member of Nonprofit New York, New Yorkers for Culture and Arts and part of the Leadership Council at Creatives Rebuild New York. She is a member of the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture, the Children Museum of Manhattan's Dance Portal Advisory Board, and Eva Yaa Asantewaa's Curatorial Advisory Team at Gibney, and is an advisor for the Latinx Artists Retreat, an annual convening for Latinx cultural producers across all artistic disciplines and fields.

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Director of MANCC, a national choreographic center since 2004 at Florida State University, charged with its overall artistic vision, strategic planning, fundraising, partnership building, and annual residency seasons that support artists' research and creative processes in the development of new work reflecting a range of identities, practices, and geographies.

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Caitlin Strokosch has served as President & CEO of the National Performance Network since 2016, and was previously Executive Director of the Artists Communities Alliance. She holds degrees in music performance and musicology, where her research focused on music as a tool for building communities or resistance and dissent.

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Asia Freeman, Artistic Director of Bunnell Street Arts Center (Homer, AK) was born in Mexico, and raised in Alaska. In 1994 Asia co-founded the non-profit multidisciplinary art space, Bunnell Street Arts Center. Asia teaches, writes, curates and speaks about art in Alaska. She has an MFA in visual art and serves on the Board of NPN and Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation.

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Alex Winters is Head of Programming, at vanguard public art organization Creative Time. Alex oversees the planning and execution of Creative Time’s public projects, including the Think Tank, annual convening, the Creative Time Summit, Rashid Johnson’s ""Red Stage"", Kamala Sankaram's ""The Last Stand"", Allison Janae Hamilton’s ""Waters of a Lower Register"", as well as Creative Time’s first international public project, ""Basilea"", commissioned by Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland.

Born and raised in Meanjin (Brisbane, Australia), Alex has a BFA from Queensland College of Art and a Masters in Creative Production and Arts Management from Queensland University of Technology.

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Jenny Schlenzka is the Executive Artistic Director of Performance Space New York. Prior Schlenzka was the Associate Curator at MoMA PS1 in New York from 2012-2017. In 2008 she was appointed the first Curator dedicated to Performance in the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Humboldt University, Berlin and is a Yoko Ono Courage Awardee.

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Bill Rauch is the artistic director of the Perelman Performing Arts Center currently under construction at the World Trade Center. He co-founded Cornerstone Theater Company, collaborating with low-income rural and urban communities for 20 years, before moving to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from 2007 to 2019.

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Prior to joining Abrons Arts Center and Henry Street, Jon toured as a lighting supervisor with dance companies and worked in the fabrication of large scale public artworks. He has also for many years been a freelance lighting designer, and is currently pursuing his MPA at Columbia University.

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Kyle Maude (Producing Director) graduated from Drake University with a B.F.A. in Theatre. She has worked with Ballet Tech/Feld Ballets New York, The Royal Ballet School of London, Buglisi-Foreman Dance, and Lesbian Pulp-o-Rama! Ms. Maude joined the Company in 2003 and served as the Company’s Production Stage Manager for ten years, then Director of Producing and Touring for three years before becoming Producing Director for New York Live Arts in 2016.

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Stanlyn Brevé is the Director of National Programs at the National Performance Network, a mother, community mediator, and student of carpentry in her hometown of Bulbancha (New Orleans). She has served on the The Association of American Cultures Board and has a background in visual arts, media production, and education.

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Stephanie Pacheco is a cultural producer specializing in arts presenting, community engagement, education, and development of new performance. Executive Director of Chicago's Links Hall since 2019, Stephanie also produced artist residency programs at Hopkins Center Dartmouth College and BRIC (Brooklyn). A graduate of New York University and 2010 Kennedy Center Fellow, she consults for nonprofits and independent artists on fundraising, programming, and strategic planning.

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Erin Boberg Doughton, (she/her) Artistic Director & Curator of Performance at PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art,) works collaboratively to curate and produce performance programs including dance, music, theatre and multi-disciplinary projects as part of PICA’s TBA (Time-Based Art) Festival as well as year-round presentations, commissions and residencies.

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For 20 years, working across live performance in all disciplines, cinema, design and hospitality, Gantner has sought innovative artists, work, and ideas building new experiences and forms of communication for audiences.

He has served as Artistic Executive Director of the Onassis Foundation USA, 2019 - 2021; Artistic Director of Performance Space 122, 2005 - 2017; and is also a consulting curator for BAM (Brooklyn) and Theater de Welt (Dusseldorf). He is the chair of Hoovie, and MKRS; is a board member of Myer Family Investments, and Jianguo. He also serves on the boards of the Chocolate Factory (NYC), VII Photos, In Between Time in Bristol and various philanthropic institutions in Australia.