Rebecca Evans, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Marketing & PR Artistic Communications Director, Social Justice Artist & Activist, and Consultant

Rebecca Evans is a Rehoboth Beach-based integrated communications director, social justice artist & activist, unconscious bias consultant and life coach, writer, and cofounder and co-owner of Diamond State of Mind, LLC. Rebecca also identifies as a proud parent, Black, queer-lesbian, multiethnic, multicultural, disABLED woman, who can be referred to as she/her/they. Evans promotes social and cultural equality, inclusion, diversity, and justice through all forms of artistic expression. She seeks to connect with underrepresented and isolated communities to locate artists, and provide an exhibition space, artistic supplies, and other resources to display an artists’ work, and further their professional and academic goals.

Evans obtained her bachelor’s degree in English and Women Studies from Tufts University, and her master’s degree in Corporate Public Relations from Boston University. She has over a decade of experience in integrated communications and working and volunteering within the artistic community. She has written for non-profits, directed, and acted in plays in Central Jersey, and performed in New York City and Boston before moving to Delaware with her family and three seizure-alert service dogs. Through Diamond State of Mind, Rebecca, along with her wife, Natalia will provide unconscious bias training, consultancy, and coaching to individuals and organizations based upon their unique integration of the arts and communications strategies.

Executive Director, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council

I am an enrolled citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, native American woman. I have an undergraduate degree from Bemidji State University in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance. My masters degree is from University of Minnesota Duluth in Tribal Administration and Governance. I worked for 20+ years in Tribal Government with the most recent position being Internal Audit Division Director. My most recent position prior to ARAC was for the Boys & Girls Club of the Leech Lake Area as the Executive Director. Since I have spent most on my career working with my own community it has been an eye opener of the extreme need for DEI work in the general community. I have had two specific acts of racism with the employer I joined.
I want to create a program based on cultural competency that will encompass major areas to help non BIPOC to be respectful and understand history.

Rejoice Diaspora Dance Theater

Robert Martinez, born in Riverton, Wyoming, draws profound inspiration from his Chicano and Northern Arapaho heritage. He graduated from the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in just three years, making him one of the youngest graduates at the time.

Martinez’s work merges Indigenous Plains Ledger Art traditions with graphite-rendered figures, bold airbrushed acrylics, and brushed highlights on antique paper, resulting in powerful visual statements. Drawing inspiration from the hardworking people of the West, his art serves as a bridge between the past and present.

A recipient of Wyoming’s Governor’s Art Award, his work is part of the permanent collections at The Plains Indian Museum at the Center of the West, The Brinton Museum, The Wyoming State Museum, The Nic, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

Program Associate/ Volunteer Coordinator, Tieton Arts and Humanities

Customer Service Associate, ANIMARTERENO Collective Program Coordinator