Northern Arizona Book Festival

Northern Colorado Intertribal Pow-wow Association, Inc.

Northglenn Arts & Humanities Foundation

Northwest Folklife

Arts and Culture Coordinator, XIA Gallery and Cafe

Npaus Baim is an educator and storyteller, who collects the narratives of Asian Americans. In 2023, she taught A Reflection on Hmong Culture & Language with Public Art St. Paul for the Sidewalk Poetry Workshop series. In 2022, she published the digital zine “Hmong American Experiences during the Pandemic” with Hmong Museum. In 2019 to 2021, she was published in #MinneAsianStories with Coalition of Asian American Leaders, Staring Down the Tiger by Pa Der Vang, and The Summit Avenue Review. Previously, Npaus Baim worked in higher education and taught the course College Writing at the University of Minnesota Duluth as an instructor, as well as a Writers Consultant for the Writing Workshops. Currently, she works at XIA Gallery & Cafe as an Arts & Culture Coordinator to support and celebrate Asian & BIPOC artists. Npaus Baim recently started her youth program, SEA (Southeast Asians) Us Write & Design focused on fostering the creative, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills of Southeast Asian youth. It was funded by Coalition Asian American Leaders’ Sparks Fund Leadership and the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota’s Women Innovators Program. Together, Npaus Baim and the youth group published the magazine, “Hmong Palette: Our Uniqueness in Bloom.”

Nybria Acklin is an artist and administrator based in New Orleans. She is a Human Resources Manager at an education and capacity building nonprofit, and she is a deeply invested supporter of the arts and equity initiatives. Over the past two years she’s worked with Friends of the Freedom House – a house museum and community space in New Orleans – as a lead project manager doing grant writing, research, and coordination support; strategic planning support; and administrative support for the organization’s museum and archives projects. She commits to transition into the arts full-time with hopes of supporting BIPOC artists and culture workers gain more access to funding, opportunities, and connections. Nybria graduated from Smith College in 2018 with a B.A. in Sociology. She is also a Venture for America and Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs alumna. Nybria is excited to participate in the National Leaders of Color Fellowship program where she hopes to connect with like-minded individuals, and to better educate herself on the arts landscape and equity in the arts in order to make a positive impact in the field.

Nye County DBA Town of Tonopah

Oaxaca en Utah

Oceanside Theatre Company

Ogden Friends of Acoustic Music (OFOAM)