January 26Ñ29 and 31, 2026
Conceived and Directed by Dr. Anita Gonzalez
Conjuring the Caribbean is an immersive colloquium exploring Caribbean history, culture, labor, religion and carnival, featuring guest artists Shartoya Jn. Baptiste and Micole Murray in collaboration with Georgetown faculty, staff and students.
MONDAY: PLANTATIONS
Saint Lucian Folk Dances
Guest artist Micole Murray
At age nine Micole began dance training with Les Enfants Dance Company and subsequently traveled and performed with them throughout the Caribbean. Over time, her role in the company shifted from that of dancer to teacher, choreographer, artistic director, and finally producer. By age nineteen, she was working for the St. Lucia Department of Culture. She remained there for 4 years before leaving to pursue a bachelor’s degree in dual majors’ Dance and Media Studies at Hunter College in New York.
Under Kala Studio Inc., Micole has served as producer on commercials, short films, music videos and is currently developing two feature films ‘The Day Is Mine’ and ‘One Good Thing’. As primary Talent Manager to her daughter, Naledi Murray, she guides Naledi’s acting career, constantly assessing her abilities and goals while building relationships with industry professionals critical to Naledi’s success. Under her guidance, young Murray has amassed numerous tv and film credits, among them as a lead on the Netflix tv show, Sweet Tooth and on the highly anticipated feature film, Panic Carefully, opposite Julia Roberts and Brian Tyree Henry. Micole’s love of dance shaped her early involvement in the arts while her continuing evolution has brought exciting collaborations in new mediums. What hasn’t changed is her absolute joy in creating work for audiences everywhere.
Migration, Health, and Policy in the Caribbean
Welcome with the Mayor’s Office on Caribbean Community Affairs, Natalee S. Snider.
Natalee S. Snider, a veteran of the United States Air Force, spent most of her career advocating for her community with a passion for helping constituents navigate local government and private business – especially fellow Caribbean Americans across the District of Columbia. Director Snider was President of the Caribbean Students Association at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and twice elected and served as member and Vice-Chair of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4B from 2017 to 2019. She has also contributed several thousand volunteer hours to public policy, community organizing, and constituent engagement across the District.
Director Snider, born in Kingston, Jamaica, migrated to Washington, DC where she learned the value of the resources available for District residents. Director Snider began her career at an accounting firm in Southeast DC with the Summer Youth Employment Program. She was Incident Commander of the DC Department of Health Judiciary Square Testing site and has also served as a COVID-19 Contact Trace Force Investigator with the DC Department of Health.
Introduction by Elisa Massimino
Elisa Massimino is Visiting Professor of Law and Executive Director of Georgetown’s Human Rights Institute. She also serves as a non-resident senior fellow in national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress.
Massimino joined the Georgetown faculty in 2019 as the Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights. Before coming to Georgetown, Massimino was a senior fellow with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a practitioner-in-residence at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Previously, Massimino spent 27 years—the last decade as president and CEO—at Human Rights First, one of the nation’s leading human rights advocacy organizations.
Massimino has a distinguished record of human rights advocacy in Washington. She has testified before Congress dozens of times; writes frequently for mainstream publications and specialized journals; appears regularly in major media outlets; and speaks to audiences around the country. During her leadership at Human Rights First, the influential Washington publication The Hill consistently named her one of the most effective public advocates in the country; Washingtonian magazine has repeatedly named her one of D.C.’s most influential people in foreign policy. Massimino is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. She holds a law degree from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Trinity University. Prior to law school, Massimino taught philosophy at various colleges and universities in Michigan.
Panelist, Dr. Jennifer Marie Boum-Make
Jennifer Boum Make is primarily a literary and visual studies scholar and Assistant Professor in the Department of French & Francophone Studies at Georgetown University. She is also affiliated with the Medical Humanities Initiative and the African Studies Program at Georgetown. She received her Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research is focused on the French Caribbean, the legacy of colonialism and the French Atlantic slave trade, and care studies.
Her forthcoming monograph, Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean (Rutgers University Press, 2025), examines the relationship between colonial legacies and caregiving dynamics in the French Caribbean, offering a decolonial perspective on care practices.
In her second book project, Jennifer Boum Make explores the systemic nature of chemical colonialism under French governance in its Overseas Territories, exposing the racial, gender, and geographic asymmetries that underpin these practices of neglect and (un)caring. Her analysis centers on literary and visual representations of women’s health and wellbeing in the French Caribbean and French Polynesia.
Jennifer Boum Make is also an active member of the collective Kwazman Vwa, founded in the spring of 2021 and which offers series of monthly online conversations (during the academic year) with contemporary Caribbean writers.
Panelist, Dr. Amanda Pinheiro
Dr. Amanda Pinheiro (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar of the intersection of transnational migration, race & ethnicity, and policy. Her ethnography examines the human cost of migration deterrence policies and practices across the Americas, through the case of the Haitian migration and diaspora. She teaches global migration, race and ethnicity
in the context of international migration, migration across the Americas, and Latin American and Latinx studies. Prior to joining GU, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House. Dr. Pinheiro holds a Ph.D. in Global Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), an M.A. in Latin American and Latinx Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and advanced training on Forced Migration (University of Oxford), Forced and Climate Migration (UC Berkeley), and Racial Justice in Border Studies (Cornell University).
Conjuring the Caribbean Artistic Director/ Moderator, Dr. Anita Gonzalez
Anita Gonzalez (Ph.D.) is a professor of performing arts and Black Studies at Georgetown University and a co-Founder of their Racial Justice Institute. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023. Her edited and authored books are Shipping Out: Race, Performance and Labor at Sea (U-Michigan Press), Performance, Dance and Political Economy (Bloomsbury), Black Performance Theory (Duke), Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality (U-Texas Press), and Jarocho’s Soul (Rowan Littlefield). Her essays about multi-cultural and international performance appear in several edited collections She has completed three Senior Scholar Fulbright grants and been a resident artist/scholar at Rockefeller’s Bellagio Center in Italy, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas. She was a Humanities Center Fellow at the University of Michigan during the 2017/18 academic year and is a recent recipient of the Shirley Verrett Award for outstanding teaching of performance. Gonzalez extends the reach of her scholarship through public engagement. She created a massive open online course “Storytelling for Social Change” that has reached over 50,000 learners to date. A new open access course, “Black Performance as Social Protest” is available on the Coursera digital platform. Her interdisciplinary initiatives include projection mapping of The Snark and The Living Lakes in the Duderstadt Center, developing a performance installation and lecture series titled “Conjuring the Caribbean,” leading a team to develop the interactive historical website 19thCenturyActs, and founding Anishinaaabe Theatre Exchange in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to engage Ojibwe communities in dialogue through theatrical performance. Gonzalez also directs, devises and writes theatrical works. Her innovative stagings of historical and cross-cultural experiences have appeared on PBS national television and at Lincoln Center
Out-of-Doors, The Working Theatre, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, New York Live Arts, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and other national and international venues. Gonzalez writes operas and musicals. Her librettos have been produced by Washington National Opera (Mikey Dee and the Eclipse, 2026), Atlanta Opera (Faces in the Flames, 2023) and Boston Opera Collaborative (Courthouse Bells 2023). Other musical writings include Zora on My Mind about Black women’s empowerment and entrepreneurship and Ybor City the Musical about Cuban unionism and racial division in 1918. Gonzalez is a Fellow in the American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice program, a member of the National Theatre Conference, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, and the Dramatists Guild.
Shartoya Jn. Baptiste - (Scenic Designer, Choreographer, Creative Director)
Born and raised on the picturesque island of Saint Lucia, Shartoya’s spark for the performing arts ignited at the age of seven. She has represented Saint Lucia at numerous international dance showcases and has performed and choreographed for major events, including the Caribbean Cricket Premier League cheerleaders.
When Shartoya is not dancing or choreographing, she can be found in the theatre or the design studio. Shartoya’s interest in scenic design stemmed from her interest in music videos and her mother’s career in interior and commercial design. Her passion for design grew during her education at Towson University and the University of Maryland where she earned an MFA in Design.
Her Caribbean heritage is a foundation for her set designs. Some design credits:
DC AREA: Furlough’s Paradise (Theater Alliance), SLEEPOVA (Olney Theatre Center), Dodi & Diana (Mosaic Theatre Company), I have a secret to tell you...(The Kennedy Centre), Is God Is (Constellation Theatre Company), P.Nokio: A Hip-
Hop Musical (Imagination Stage), and The Book Club Play and By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (The University of Maryland).
REGIONAL: Syncopated Avenue and Black Nativity (Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe). UPCOMING: The Tempest (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company) and The Sea Beyond the Ocean (The Kennedy Centre).
Instagram: @shr758_ Youtube: shr758 Website: www.shr758.com
TUESDAY: MULTILINGUAL CARIBBEAN
Languages
of Racialized Identities:
Brown Bag
Gabriella Dominique Reyes, Doctoral Student
Gabriella Reyes is a 5th year PhD Student studying Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. She is a sociolinguist and she specializes in studying language attitudes towards Dominican Spanish as well as focusing on how raciolinguistic ideologies affect language attitudes. She is passionate about studying the intersection of social justice and language and cares much about Caribbean representation in her work.
Antonio David Lyons, Director of The EnActors
A multi-disciplinary artist whose storytelling often fuses poetry, music, and embodied movement. An Applied Theatre Practitioner who manages to maintain a thriving career as a professional artist in tandem with his activist and scholarly pursuits. He has been an Art and Social Justice Fellow at Emory University. A Fulbright Awardee, an Oregon Shakespeare Festival Producing Fellow, and a Scholar in Residence at the University of Michigan
(Ann Arbor). He is the creator of “We Are Here”, a social activism campaign birthed in South Africa that utilizes discoursive play to engage men and boys in themes of identity, Masculinity, relationships, gender-based violence, and HIV/AIDS. We Are Here has implemented programs and toured in South Africa, Namibia, and the USA. Writings about We Are Here, appear in Performance and Politics in Africa; University of Michigan Press. Some of his producing credits include: Recipes, Remedies and Rumors; Community Producer, La Comedia of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Beautiful Struggle (US Consulate Commission/Market Theatre, Johannesburg); Back2Back Thursdays; We Are Here (premier/ Joburg Theatre) **this poetry based solo show became a multi-person play produced in collaboration with TX Theatre at the Soweto Theatre; Culturefest (Oregon Shakespeare Festival).
Some of his Film/television credits include: Sherman’s Showcase, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Star Trek: Picard, Seal Team, Bosch, Person of Interest, The Book of Negroes, Avenger, Generation Kill, False Prophets, Hotel Rwanda, Masked and Anonymous, American History X, The Sum of All Fears, New York Undercover, The District, The Agency, 24, The Practice, Philly and Karen Sisco, In South Africa: Generations, Jacob’s Cross, Fourplay: Sex Tips For Girls, Scandal, Ubizo: The Calling, Jozi-H, Night Drive and Home Affairs. He’s released numerous poetryinfused music projects which include: Human Jewels (album), We Dance We Pray (album and remix EP) and My Africa (album and remix EP).
He is currently manifesting several projects: Crossing Rivers (an immersive theatrical experience/ writer), Women on the Hill (TV series/ creator-writer), Almost A Dancer (Film Project/writer), and Breathe (Short Film/writer-actor) and his first collection of poetry, TWO SIDE/SAME COIN.
He is also the Executive Director of the Valerie J. Maynard Foundation.
Leslie Jones, Assistant Director Racial Justice EnActors.
Leslie is an actress, writer and arts-educator from Brooklyn, NY. As an actress, she has performed extensively throughout the US. She is the founder of Story Warriors, a Baltimore -based storytelling company committed to presenting affordable performance events to communities where arts events may not be readily accessible. She currently facilitates workshops for families and educators in areas of conflict management, wellness, personal development, and transformative Social Emotional Learning. In addition to working with the NYC public school system, she has been invited to train staff in schools nationwide, including Lafayette LA, San Francisco, CA and Philadelphia, PA. She is currently working as the personal development instructor for both AileyCamp NY and AileyCamp Baltimore. Leslie currently resides in Baltimore, MD.
Ersian François, Managing Director at The Lab
Ersian is an arts producer and administrator with an international background in arts management and performance. As Managing Director at The Lab, she oversees financial and administrative operations while training and mentoring students through hands-on arts management and producing experience through The Lab’s global interdisciplinary projects.
She teaches at Georgetown University, serves on the Washington Performing Arts Junior Board, and has contributed to grantmaking efforts for Opera America, Mid-Atlantic Arts, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Previously based in Paris, she worked with leading music ensembles and co-founded the Karaïb Festival in Île-de-France. She holds an MA from Sorbonne Université and was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago.
Creole Languages, Music, and Inscribed
Inequities
Loughton Sargeant, Musician
Loughton B. Sargeant “SARGE” was born in Nevis, West Indies, grew up in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands and was educated in the Caribbean and the United States.
He is the Leader, Musical Director and Keyboardist of the Image Band, a District of Columbia based Caribbean Band for over 47 years. The Image Band has been featured in the Washington Post and other local media on numerous occasions for its outstanding community outreach and musical excellence.
Mr. Sargeant is a founding member and present Treasurer of the Caribbean Disaster Relief and Recovery Alliance (CDRRA). A non-profit 501(C)(3) Organization with a mission to provide timely relief assistance as well as long-term recovery support to families and communities in the Caribbean region through a coordinated effort in partnership with other businesses, community organizations, non-profits and professionals. He is a founding member of DC Caribbean Carnival, Inc. (DCCC), a community based, non-profit organization whose ongoing mission over the last 33 years is to plan, organize, and bring to fruition an annual Mardi Gras style Carnival to the District of Columbia and Baltimore communities; develop and encourage cross-cultural programs in the expansion of Caribbean culture and educate youths and adults in Caribbean arts, crafts and music. Mr. Sargeant also serves as DCCC’s Executive Director. The annual Carnival attracted thousands of spectators from throughout North America, Europe and the Caribbean.
Sargeant was instrumental in staging the Caribbean Cultural Concert at Freedom Plaza in June 2023, 2024 and August 2025; and is presently working with
The Mayor’s Office on Caribbean Community Affairs to stage a similar program in June 2026. Mr. Sargeant is a Founding Patron of the Caribbean-American Political Action Committee (C-PAC) and is the Cultural Program Director for the Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS).
Mr. Sargeant was the local Event Coordinator for the Annual Jamaican Jerk Festival DC and was the local Event Coordinator for Air Jamaica’s Islands in the Park Festival. He resides in Bowie, Maryland and enjoys spending time with family and friends; traveling throughout the Caribbean; watching Cricket; and performing Caribbean music.
Jennifer Marie Boum Make, Assistant Professor (Defer to bio in Monday section)
WEDNESDAY: MUSIC
The EnActors present Tools For Joy: Let's Move! Joyful Dance and Movement: Facilitated in collaboration with Soka Tribe
Shermica “Sokanista” Farquhar, Founder & CEO
Shermica “Sokanista” Farquhar is a dancer, cultural organizer, and movement artist rooted in Caribbean carnival traditions.
A Brooklyn-born Trinidadian with deep family roots in mas-making, she is trained in modern, salsa, hip hop, Afro-Caribbean, and West African dance disciplines and is a certified instructor of the groundbreaking Afro-diasporic Talawa Technique.
In 2015, Shermica founded Soka Tribe, a cultural organization that celebrates and shares the freedom, joy, and power of Caribbean carnival culture. Over the last decade, Soka Tribe has performed and taught across 15 cities, 5 countries, and prestigious stages including the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the DC Funk Parade, and the embassies of Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados.
A self-described “carnival junkie,” Shermica has played mas all over the world and continues to organize cultural experiences that reconnect communities with Caribbean heritage. Beyond her movement work, she serves on the Mayor’s Advisory Commission on Caribbean Community Affairs, is founder of the Return to the Reason Festival (Accra and Washington, D.C.), and is a Cultural Studies graduate student at the University of the West Indies. She holds a BS from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Jazelle Hunt, Director & Chief
Jazelle Hunt is a New Jersey-raised Trinidadian, Washington D.C. transplant, and proud Howard University alumna. Jazelle joined Soka Tribe in its first year and became a Soka Tribe Chief in Summer 2017. When Jazelle isn’t leading class and showcasing her noteworthy wine, she’s leading other Soka Tribe initiatives and writing!
Antonio David Lyons, Director of The EnActors (Defer to bio in Tuesday section)
Leslie Jones, Assistant Director Racial Justice EnActors. (Defer to bio in Tuesday section)
Librettos of Home and Homelands
Panelist, Anna Deeny Morales
Anna Deeny Morales is a US-based Latina writer who grew up between Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. Her works in opera and poetry consider everyday family love and children; modes of empathy; political, legal, and religious violence; strategies of disappearance; and family separation. Her operas have been supported by the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Georgetown Americas Institute, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, among others. Recent works include Las Místicas de México (2024), an immersive performance dedicated to the more than 110,000 disappeared in Mexico, and ZAVALA-ZAVALA: an opera in v cuts, with music by composer, Brian Arreola, based on the first family separation case under the Zero Tolerance Policy. ZAVALA debuted at the Kennedy Center in 2022 and was performed at Gala Hispanic
Theater in 2024.
A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for her translation of Tala by Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral, Deeny Morales has translated works by Raúl Zurita, Mercedes Roffé, and Alejandra Pizarnik, among others. Forthcoming translations include Ecopoems, Storm, & Some Fringe Benefits, a volume of selected works by Nicanor Parra, which she has edited and translated for New Directions (2027); and Amanda Berenguer’s Identity of Certain Fruit, which will be published by Point Zero Press (2026). Deeny Morales received a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures (UC, Berkeley); an MA in Comparative Literature (Dartmouth); and a BA in English Literature with a minor in Piano Performance (Shepherd University). She studied theater and directing at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts (Rome, Italy). A Fellow in the Humanities at the Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown, she has also taught at Harvard and Dartmouth. She was a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, in the fall semester of 2025 to work on her new opera commission, Home Come Home.
Deeny Morales has served as an expert reader for the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship competition as well as judge for the Academy of American Poets and the ALTA National Translation Award in Poetry. She is currently Vice President of the Board of Directors of the IN Series. Her monograph, Other Solitudes: Essays on Consciousness and Poetry, is forthcoming in 2028.
Panelist, Dr. Anita Gonzalez
(Defer to bio in Monday section)
THURSDAY: CARNIVAL AND SOCA
Soca Movements
Shartoya Jn. Baptiste, Scenic Designer (Defer to bio in Monday section)
Protest on Parade
Shermica “Sokanista” Farquhar, Founder & CEO (Defer to bio in Wednesday section)
Jazelle Hunt, Director & Chief (Defer to bio in Wednesday section)
Antonio David Lyons, Director of The EnActors (Defer to bio in Tuesday section)
Leslie Jones, Assistant Director Racial Justice EnActors. (Defer to bio in Tuesday section)
Khandeya Sheppard, Steel pan musician, educator
Khandeya “Kay” Sheppard is a steelpan musician, educator, and arts administrator with a wide range of solo and ensemble performance experiences in the United States and Trinidad and Tobago. She considers herself a cultural ambassador and aims to use her platforms to give back to communities through music, service, education, and mentorship.
Khandeya is a solo performer, Pan Masters Steel Orchestra member, and the music director and leader of NEXUS DMV and Dynamic Steel Project. In 2019, Khandeya and NEXUS DMV were the first act to perform featuring the steelpan as a main instrument in the Sofar Sounds franchise (Baltimore location). She
has recording credits with Moana Avvenenti, and Victor Provost and Latin Grammy award-winning group Afro-Bop Alliance.
In 2011, Khandeya became the first female steelpan principal to graduate from Berklee College of Music, earning a B.M. in Music Business/Management with a minor in Africana Studies: Music & Society. She also holds a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Music Entrepreneurship from UMBC.
Khandeya currently serves as a staff member and faculty lecturer at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She is also the Music Director for the Cultural Academy for Excellence (CAFE) and the Steelband Director for the University of Maryland Terrapin Community Music School.
Evening Performances
Water Returns
Antonio Lyons (HIMSELF) - (Defer to bio in Tuesday section)
Co-directed by Itumeleng Moeketsi and Dr. Refiloe Lepere
Produced by Mia Massimino
Dramaturge: Reggie Lawrence
Sound Design: Langa Masima
Original music: Maxwell Baloyi
Projection Design: Kagiso Baloyi
Developed with the support of MPAACT (Chicago) and WITS University
Special Thanks: Audrey, Beverly and Valerie
Caribbean Landscapes
Fatima Dyfan (MAYA/INES)
Fatima Dyfan is an Sierra LeoneanAmerican art, event, and performance producer, performer, writer, director, and scholar and educator deeply interested in community, humanity, expression, justice and spirituality. Fatima is currently an Associate Producer for Extreme Length Productions and the Artistic Advisor to Co-Curricular Theatre Groups at Georgetown University. Fatima was the Miranda Family Fellow (2022/23), BOLD Rising Director (2023/24), and National New Play Networks’s Producer-in-Residence at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (2023/24). Fatima graduated from Georgetown University in 2021 studying Government and African-American Studies with a Minor in Theatre Performance Studies.
Aidan Munroe (MULO/PEPE)
Aidan (CAS ‘27) is a current Georgetown student majoring in Sociology and Black Studies as well as minoring in Environment and Sustainability Science. This will be his second show with the Department of Performing Arts, and he is also an active participant in co-curricular theatre, serving as the Associate Producer for Black Theatre Ensemble. Aidan is thrilled to be in such an exciting musical, and he relishes the opportunity to work with a number of professionals and his peers. He hopes you enjoy the show.
Almitra Guart (YEMAYA/DANCER)
Almitra Guart is the daughter of two Caribbean parents (Guyanese and Puerto Rican) and the product of a joyful, hardworking household in the mountains of upstate New York. She is a junior in the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, majoring in International Culture and Politics and minoring in Performing Arts.
An academic by day and an artist by night, she spends her mornings writing her undergraduate thesis or working at the Massive Data Institute, and her evenings rehearsing for musicals or serving as the Assistant Director of Black Movements Dance Theatre. She began her classical ballet training at the age of four and, over the past sixteen years, has expanded her repertoire to include modern, jazz, West African, and Caribbean folk dance—though ballet remains closest to her heart. This is her first time performing with the Georgetown Theatre Department, though she has previously served as a dramaturg on a research trip to Puerto Rico with Professor Gonzalez. She has just returned from a semester in South Africa and is thrilled to be back dancing with her beloved team in Conjuring the Caribbean.
Mia Massimino (Associate Producer / DANCER)
Mia Teresa Massimino is an interdisciplinary producer, storyteller, painter, and project director whose work bridges performance, pedagogy, and community arts. Grounded in multimedia performance, education, and visual art, her practice creates spaces for connection, dialogue, and transformation. Massimino currently serves as Project Director and Program Coordinator for the Racial Justice Institute at Georgetown University, where she develops and leads creative and scholarly initiatives highlighting art’s role in social change and
collective healing. Massimino is also a member of the Woodshed Collective where she collaborates with a multigenerational network of artists and scholars to develop experimental methodologies for performance research and interdisciplinary creation. As a coproducer for the Collective, she manages partnerships, residency logistics, and supports the creative development of new works. Website: www.miamassimino.com
