Talinh Agoyo is co-founder and director of We Are the Seeds of CultureTrust, a non-profit organization committed to uplifting and amplifying Indigenous voices through the arts.​ Tailinh is the host of ‘Rise and Thrive’, a radio show that honors the voices of Indigenous artists, performers, educators, and change-makers. She is also a producer of the gorgeous and significant ‘I Will Carry You’ children’s book. Tailinh is an artist and an actor. Her photography work is focused on capturing the vibrancy of Indigenous people today. The Warrior Project, a collection of photos of Native youth and their continuing commitment to environmental stewardship has received international attention and continues to be impactful. Tailinh has worked in film and television for over 30 years. She is mom to four kind and lovely young men.

Harold Steward is a modern philosopher, strategist, and educator, is the executive director at the New England Foundation for the Arts. Previously, they were the executive director & cultural strategist at The Theatre Offensive (TTO), a Boston-based nonprofit organization that presents liberating art by, for, and about queer and trans people of color that transcends artistic boundaries, celebrates cultural abundance, and dismantles oppression. They previously served as manager of the South Dallas Cultural Center, which provides instruction and enrichment in the arts with an emphasis on the African contribution to world culture.

Emilya Cachapero is Co-Executive Director: National and Global Programming and has been active in the US arts community for more than 30 years.  Ms. Cachapero oversees TCG’s grant programs, international programs and special projects which include Beyond Orientalism, a national initiative to address the use of yellow face, brown face and whitewashing.  She is a member of the Executive Board and Council of International Theatre Insitute (ITI) Worldwide, and as lead producer for ITI’s New Project Group (NPG) she produced House-Home, an eleven country collaboration that was performed in Xiamen, China in 2011, IfDENTITY, a ten-country collaboration that was performed in Madrid in 2008 and The Borges Project, a ten-country collaboration performed in Manila in 2006.  In addition to her current responsibilities with TCG and ITI-U.S., Ms. Cachapero was a US National Commissioner to UNESCO from 2002 – 2008.  Prior to joining TCG in 1991, she served as general manager for the Concordia Chamber Symphony; associate director of the Non-Traditional Casting Project in New York; conservatory administrator for American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco; and chair of the artistic committee for the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco.  She was instrumental in creating the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and was its founding producer for the first two years of the program.  Her writing has been published in American Poetry Review and several poetry anthologies.  Ms Cachapero received her Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University and an honorary M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theater. She is an alumna of the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute.

Quanice G. Floyd (she/her) is a renaissance woman who wears many capes. Born and raised in NYC, she has spent over a decade in Washington, DC where she has received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music Education from Howard University and Kent State University respectively. Her passion for arts administration led her to pursue her second Master’s degree in Arts Management at American University and is currently a doctoral student at Drexel University. Quanice was recently appointed as the Executive Director of National Guild for Community Arts Education after previously serving as the Executive Director at Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance, an arts education advocacy and service organization. She is also the Co-Founder of the Arts Administrators of Color (AAC) Network, an organization committed to empowering artists and arts administrators by advocating for access, diversity, inclusion, and equity in the arts in the DC and Baltimore metropolitan areas. She has also been a public-school music educator where she taught elementary and middle school general music, chorus, band, and orchestra. Quanice serves as a commissioner for the DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities and is an alumna of Fractured Atlas’ Artist Campaign School, the National Guild for Community Arts Education’s Leadership Institute (CAELI), ArtEquity’s Racial Facilitator Cohort, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Music Educators and Arts Administrators Academy, 4.0 Schools’ Essentials Program, and the Arts Education Collaborative’s Leadership Academy. Quanice received the Americans for the Arts’ American Express Emerging Leader Award and the Arts Advocate of the Year Award from the Coalition of African Americans in the Performing Arts.