Ashley Hare (they/them)Ashley is an administrator collaborating with artists, cultural workers, and organizers who share values in dismantling systemic oppression. They have worked in various states across the country training organizations, business, and government agencies on equitable practices within their programming for system-involved youth and adults in detention centers, foster care homes, school classrooms, and neighborhoods. Their practice centers civic arts and cultural engagements to shift power and voice to those supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism continuously try to invisiblize. Ashley is also co-founder of ReFrame Youth Arts Center in South Phoenix. Ashley is also co-founder of ReFrame Youth Arts Center in South Phoenix.
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Mary Stephens (she/her)Mary's practice engages civic engagement and cultural citizenship through the arts, with demonstrated ability to cultivate relationships with diverse communities locally, nationally and internationally. Mary's work advances visibility, representation, and power-sharing between local, state and national artists and organizations. Key to her method is leadership development, building strong partnerships, and intersectional approaches to institutional community engagement. Her curatorial work focuses curating site-specific artistic experiences that address issues of race, immigration, gender, and environmental justice.
Mary received her B.A. in Theatre from Arizona State University, and an M.A. in International Peace & Conflict Resolution from American University in Washington, DC. |
Ebone Johnson (she/her)This Mississippi girl moved to the Valley 10 years ago and has had her hand in a little bit of everything-- but “all the things” made sense! She has a great passion for youth, the liberation of Black women, racial justice, HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) advocacy, educating and volunteering with teen girls of color, and all things art related. Ebone began her career as a medical translator/interpreter for Spanish speaking patients, moved on to being an Account Executive for a local radio station, progressed into entrepreneurship and becoming Program Director for a local non profit where her main focus was on the operational and sustainability opportunity of a group home for parenting and pregnant teen girls in the West Valley. She owns a local art business and enjoys traveling to re-focus and re-center herself on what it means to be a part of the bigger picture. Ebone is also the fundraising chair for the Greater Phoenix Urban League Young Professionals and takes great pride in volunteering and community focused initiatives. Ebone received her degree in Speech Communications from Jackson State University.
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Jaclyn Roessel (she/her)Born and raised on the Navajo Nation, it is the wisdom of her homelands that shapes Jaclyn Roessel’s cosmovision. Experience early in her career as a museum professional, cultural arts producer and curator confirmed her belief of the inherent power of utilizing cultural learning as a tool to engage and build stronger communities. Molded by her grandmothers, Jaclyn has fostered a praxis that utilizes Indigenous ways of knowing and decolonized methodologies as a catalyst to build cultural equity in organizations across the country. Her work as a certified personal coach integrates her Diné perspective and belief in the inherent wisdom of her coach partners to navigate challenges and achieve healing transformation in their lives and work. Jaclyn is a co-founder of Native Women Lead, a former National Art Strategies Creative Community Fellow and Native Entrepreneur-in-Residence at New Mexico Community Capital. In her role as director of decolonized futures and radical dreams at the U.S. Department of Arts & Culture, she stewards the Honor Native Land Project and currently serves on the New Mexico Governor’s Council for Racial Justice. More about Jaclyn at Grown Up Navajo
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Carolina Aranibar-Fernández (she/her)Carolina Aranibar-Fernández is a Bolivian-born multi-media artist and curator. She produced key artistic and community-based projects for InSite Consultants, including Arts Equity Dialogues and Politics of Place. Her practice addresses concerns of displacement, privatization of land, exploitation of natural resources, environmental issues, and the invisible labor that supplies global trade. In a range of installations and objects that interweave fabrics, oral storytelling, ceramics, and video, she uses hand-making processes and materials that draw from ancestral and contemporary craft. She explores materials as language—as non-verbal stories, allowing the language of soil, sugar, metals, and crude oil to be the storytellers. She is currently the Director of Galleries and Public Programs at the San Francisco Arts Commission in San Francisco, California.
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