Anika Tené 提供和开发一系列以公平为中心的学习体验，这些体验联系并激励领导者和社区建立更具包容性的艺术和文化部门。在加入 Creative West 之前，她担任约翰·肯尼迪表演艺术中心的国家教育计划经理，在那里，她确保艺术专业人士获得相关的专业学习和支持，因为他们寻求为公立学校学生提供平等的艺术机会。Kwinana 曾担任舞台经理、制片人、画廊协调员和订阅销售助理，与多家艺术组织合作。她还担任全国大学招生咨询协会全国大学博览会、项目和服务助理主任，在那里她试行和扩大了 STEM 大学和职业博览会，每年吸引超过 20,000 名与会者。Tené 是乔治梅森大学视觉与表演艺术学院的董事会成员、阿灵顿县艺术委员会前任主席和阿灵顿正义组织的联合创始人；曾任有色人种艺术管理者网络主席，也是 artEquity 的 BIPOC 领导圈的校友，与来自全国各地的其他艺术领袖合作开发社会正义领导模式。Tené 获得了霍华德大学政治学学士学位和乔治梅森大学艺术管理硕士学位，她的毕业论文重点关注艺术组织领导层对多样性的需求。她还拥有美国大学公共人类学硕士学位和南非斯泰伦博斯大学管理学研究生学位。

Josh Ellis 在促进和管理 Creative West 的 BIPOC 计划和倡议方面发挥着关键作用，这些计划和倡议采用基于公平的资助做法来促进国家影响力。他之前担任过多个组织的管弦乐队经理，管理过拥有 500 多名学生的青年管弦乐队，处理过教职员工和客座艺术家的合同，并制定和实施了节目安排。他还曾在约翰·肯尼迪表演艺术中心的赞助人服务部门和 Wolf Trap 表演艺术基金会担任歌剧艺术管理实习生，在那里他为节目季开发了艺术家信息，并在 2020 年春季对歌剧艺术家救济进行了研究。Ellis 的志愿工作反映了他对艺术倡导和公平的承诺。他一直是阿灵顿艺术委员会的活跃成员，为增加该县的艺术资金做出了贡献，并游说 VA 立法机构。此外，他还为威廉王子县艺术委员会筹集资金并共同主持了颁奖典礼。最近，他被任命为表演艺术专业人士协会 (APAP) 会议的策划委员会成员，该会议是表演艺术展示、预订和巡演行业的全球顶级聚会。埃利斯拥有乔治梅森大学的艺术管理硕士学位和音乐学士学位。

马塞利娜是一位经验丰富的专业人士，拥有多元化的背景，涉及高等教育管理、艺术倡导和社区参与。拉米雷斯曾担任科罗拉多大学科罗拉多斯普林斯分校的高等教育管理员，她将战略洞察力和以社区为导向的领导力带入了她的工作中。作为科罗拉多学院的首位驻校艺术家，拉米雷斯在教育南科罗拉多州有关失踪和被谋杀土著人 (MMIP) 和疫情对有色人种女性的影响等关键问题方面发挥了关键作用。她的举措强调了她致力于将艺术作为社会变革和教育工具的承诺。作为一名技艺精湛的拉丁舞者，拉米雷斯是拉蒂莎·哈迪舞蹈团的受人尊敬的成员，为舞蹈界的活力和多样性做出了贡献。通过她的领导，她营造了一个欢迎和包容的文化表达和合作空间。在戏剧界，拉米雷斯积极参与公平、多样性和包容性 (EDI) 倡议（最近担任 PHAMALY 剧院公司的顾问委员会成员，致力于打造更加多样化的无障碍空间），同时在落基山脉各地的剧院演出。拉米雷斯也是一位出版过作品的诗人，专注于爱情、魔法和家庭等主题。她的作品反映了她作为土著拉丁裔的身份，是讲故事和建立联系的有力媒介。

Dr. Ivonne Chand O’Neal, Founder and Chief Research Officer at MUSE Research, is a researcher and cultural strategist specializing in arts impact evaluation with a focus on equity, access, and belonging. As Co-Founder of the Greater Good Group, she crafts data-driven boutique retreat experiences for marginalized contributors to the arts and culture sector. Trained as a Cognitive Psychologist, she has pioneered research platforms for prestigious organizations such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, analyzing global arts impact. With strategic roles at Crayola and VSA: the International Organization on Arts and Disability, she chaired the Arts, Culture and Museums Division at the American Evaluation Association.

ivision at the American EDr. Chand O’Neal serves on board for the Minnesota Opera, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and the National Guild for Community Arts Education.. Additionally, she advises the University of Pennsylvania’s Human Flourishing Initiative and serves as a federally-appointed reviewer for institutions like the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for National and Community Service, advocating for quality creative education. Her impactful work, recognized by media and government bodies, foreshadows her upcoming 3-book publication, “The Impact of Arts on Human Flourishing” (Springer, 2026).

Salvador Acevedo has over 20 years of experience helping organizations link their design and innovation strategies with various cultures within the U.S. Being bilingual and bicultural gives him the ability to recognize the cultural markers that signal inclusion, and he’s committed to open opportunities for all.

For the last 15 years, Acevedo has been professionally invested in helping organizations increase diversity, deepen inclusion, and advance equity, in a broad range of fields, from arts and culture to informal education and urban planning.

Acevedo is a founding faculty member of WESTAF’s Emerging Leaders of Color (ELC) program and Leaders of Color (LC) network, with the goal of increasing BIPOC leadership in policy and arts administration. He is invested in understanding the forces that shape the future of the arts field and how we can realize an inclusive and equitable one. Acevedo is a regular speaker at

conferences on DEI topics and is a TED Talk speaker with the talk I’m Mestizo.

Margie Johnson Reese is a founding faculty member of WESTAF’s ELC and current faculty of LoCF. She has a 40-year portfolio as an arts advocate and arts management professional. She received a B.A. from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington and an MFA in Theater from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is an adviser to the International Council of African Museums based in Nairobi, Kenya and is a Fellow at the Salzburg Global Seminar in Salzburg, Austria. She continues to serve as an advisor to the Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture in Wichita Falls, Texas, a local arts agency that seeded and developed under her guidance as its first Executive Director.

Her work in the local arts agency arena also includes a six-year tenure as Director of the Office of Cultural Affairs for the City of Dallas and General Manager for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. She held that position under three mayoral administrations managing grant making, arts education, festival production, cultural facilities and public art staff teams. She is credited with launching the Los Angeles International Cultural Exchange Program leading artist delegations to represent the city in Italy, Germany, Greece, France and Brazil. Her visionary city-wide music education program, Music L.A.! continues to provide music instruction, instruments and performance opportunities for young people.

Margie continues to contribute to the field of Arts Administration as a consultant to national, regional and local arts agencies, helping them develop inclusive arts policies that respond to contemporary civic goals. Recent clients include The Houston Arts Alliance, The Sacramento Metro Arts Commission, One Columbia (South Carolina) Mid-America Arts Alliance and Americans for the Arts. She is an adjunct professor in the graduate school of arts administration at Goucher College. She currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Madalena Salazar is a creative focused on issues of cultural equity with extensive experience as a nonprofit administrator, DEI consultant, educator/facilitator, organizer, and cultural producer. Currently, she serves as the Executive Director for Working Classroom, and the Principal of 3rd Space Vision LLC. She is also a faculty member for WESTAF’s LoCF and predecessor program, Emerging Leaders of Color (ELC). Madalena is community lead for Coffee + Creatives in Albuquerque. She values engaging creatively as one’s whole self, collaboratively, and intersectionally across generations, in relationship. Madalena was born, raised, and resides in Tiwa territory aka Albuquerque, New Mexico (after returning from several impactful years in Denver, CO). She loves music, cooking (and eating), tarot, nature, traveling, reading, gardening, and the healing arts. Madalena received a B.A. in Anthropology, and an M.A. in Art History from the University of New Mexico. Madalena is most proud of being a mother, and spends her remaining time with her children, partner, and her extended and chosen familix.

Joy Young, Ph.D. has more than 25 years of experience in the arts as an entrepreneurial performing artist, arts administrator, and academic. Joy’s work as a performing artist included owning a successful music studio and performing as a recitalist, sanctuary soloist, studio and background vocalist. Her 14-year tenure with the South Carolina Arts Commission was highlighted by serving on the executive leadership team as the agency Director of Administration, Human Resources, and Operations. Joy also implemented a variety of programs at the South Carolina Arts Commission to include arts/artist entrepreneurship; nonprofit leadership and organizational development; cultural tourism; statewide conferences and convening; and the AIR Institute. Joy’s contributions to the arts at the national level include service as a grant reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, member of the Committee for Individual Artists with Grantmakers in the Arts, and a mentor for the NASAA DEI Mentorship Program. She is also a Faculty member in LoCF and emphasizes leadership strategies.

Most recently, Joy served as the Executive Director of the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville. Her work saw her committed to a team who worked together implementing innovative programs, developing and executing proactive and quantifiable arts and culture initiatives, and broadening relationships with new networks and stakeholders. Joy found tremendous success capitalizing on the power of public-private partnerships as a strategy to significantly increase the Cultural Council’s earned revenue.

Joy enjoys sharing her experiences from the field in the classroom by preparing the next generation of arts administrators in the Master of Arts in Arts Administration at Winthrop University to be adaptive leaders. Joy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music, Master of Arts in Voice Performance, and the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership. Her research interests include arts leadership, program assessment and evaluation, and organization and leadership adaptations amid dynamic environmental paradigms.

David 拥有 20 多年担任艺术、文化和创意经济领域的战略顾问和领导者的经验，为全球非营利组织、高等教育机构、慈善机构和企业提供服务。作为 Creative West 的副总监，他指导宣传和公共政策项目；领导对外关系和筹款；并带头为 16 个州和司法管辖区以及全国的组织提供咨询服务。自加入 Creative West 以来，他共同制定了 Creative West 的太平洋计划；共同设计了 Creative West 的艺术和西部农村聚会；共同指导了华盛顿州创意经济战略计划的制定；发起并维护了创意经济全球会议 Creative Vitality™ 峰会；与国家州艺术机构大会合作撰写了《创意经济与经济复苏》报告；建立了西部艺术倡导网络；为西部和太平洋地区的艺术家和组织制定了救济、复原力和其他特别资助计划；加入了全国有色人种领袖奖学金；并为 Creative West 的项目争取到了数百万美元的私人和公共投资。David 还担任 Creative States Coalition 的联合主席，这是一个由公民倡导团体及其合作伙伴组成的全国性联盟。Holland 之前曾担任大波士顿艺术与商业委员会副主任。其他先前职位包括弗吉尼亚联邦大学达芬奇创新中心、弗吉尼亚联邦大学艺术学院、ART 180、弗吉尼亚拉丁芭蕾舞团、艺术与商业和英国创新基金会 Nesta 的领导和高级管理职位。Holland 还曾担任 BOP Consulting 的高级顾问，BOP Consulting 是一家全球文化和创意经济研究和咨询机构，并担任英国国家艺术运动的活动官员。13 多年来，他一直担任独立管理顾问，服务的客户包括萨尔茨堡全球研讨会和美洲开发银行、美国艺术家和儿童福利研究和设计实验室 Think of Us。他目前是 Goucher 学院艺术管理硕士课程的教师。他曾担任国家艺术基金会、科罗拉多州创意产业和俄勒冈州艺术委员会等组织的小组成员和指导委员会成员。他是萨尔茨堡全球研究员、埃文·卡罗尔·康马杰研究员和皇家艺术学会研究员。霍兰德拥有阿默斯特学院经济学和亚洲研究学士学位，以及伦敦大学亚非学院国际研究和外交以及艺术史硕士学位。