Hua Ye (Jane) is a classical pianist born and raised in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, P. R. China. After earning a B.A. in International Journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University, she moved to the U. S. to pursue her dream of classical music. Studying on full scholarship, Jane earned two M.M. degrees in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano at Kansas State University and the UMass Amherst, respectively. She now performs as a freelance musician in Boston while working as a piano teacher at her home studio A St. Piano. Her recent concert appearances for Greater Boston audiences include the Boston Public Library, Faneuil Hall, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Longwood Cricket Club, 2Life Communities, Belmont-Watertown United Methodist Church, Carriage House Violins Masterclass Series, and Groupmuse salons.

Hua Ye (Jane) is a classical pianist born and raised in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, P. R. China. After earning a B.A. in International Journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University, she moved to the U. S. to pursue her dream of classical music. Studying on full scholarship, Jane earned two M.M. degrees in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano at Kansas State University and the UMass Amherst, respectively. She now performs as a freelance musician in Boston while working as a piano teacher at her home studio A St. Piano. Her recent concert appearances for Greater Boston audiences include the Boston Public Library, Faneuil Hall, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Longwood Cricket Club, 2Life Communities, Belmont-Watertown United Methodist Church, Carriage House Violins Masterclass Series, and Groupmuse salons.

Noemi ‘Saafyr’ Paz, best known as Saafyr is, Caribbean, Lesbian, Indigo, Child of Deaf Adults (CODA), pleasure activist, and a proud negro-spiritual liberator. Originally from Boston, MA, Saafyr is the Creator of SOS by Saafyr creatively sharing stories online & in person nationwide. She is a performing & recording artist, a trained facilitator, community organizer, event host, content creator, and an American Sign Language interpreter. Saafyr cultivates brave spaces through partnerships and creativity. You can listen to her music and podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud, and YouTube. To learn more, sign up for updates at www.saafyr.com.

DeShaun Gordon-King is quickly becoming a flutist of note. Known for his soulful tone and mesmerizing phrasing, he has given performances throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States earning him recognition as a Trevor James Alto Flute artist. DeShaun grew up surrounded by jazz and gospel music beginning his classical studies while at Duke University. Inspired by these worlds of music and spirituality, DeShaun is passionate about programming that blends them together to create unique and healing concert experiences. He is a vocal advocate for new music, especially works by composers of African and Latinx heritage. His primary teachers include Sergio Pallotelli, Rebecca Troxler, Keith Underwood, and Kaori Fujii.

Tiaira Council has had a passion for the arts since her teenage years. She pursued training in fine arts at The New School in New York City during the fall of 2018. She then began to develop freelance work that focused solely on her love for the arts.

Born in raised in Boston to Panamanian immigrants, Judsine grew up in a culturally evolving world. It is color and wonder inspired the attraction Judsine had been growing for creation since she could remember. Being thrown straight into the free world after graduating from UMASS Amherst with a Degree in Non-profit arts management & social justice, she hopes to find her next inspiration.

ANGELE MARAJ (she/her/hers) is a Trinidadian-American theatre artist, writer and music maker. Since moving to Boston from Florida in 2015, she has performed with many theatre organizations such as The Footlight Club, The Theatre Offensive and Company One. Most recently, she played Kiswar Al-Hakim in the new musical "The Prince and the Painter" at the Boston New Works Festival with Moonbox Productions. Her experiences as a performer in new works inspired Angele to more deeply explore her own potential as a writer-creator. In early 2021 she developed the initial concept for the original musical "Once Upon A Carnival", a coming-of-age tale set in Trinidad & Tobago that uses the mythology and music of the island to explore themes of grief, identity and found family. She premiered three songs from the new musical in a showcase of her work as a composer and lyricist for her EAF capstone, and continues to work on its development along with the book writer, collaborator and longtime friend Brianna Pierre. Angele is also independently working on writing the stage play "le temps," a metaphysical dramedy that examines the question: Why do we choose to live? Currently, Angele is the assistant director and dramaturg for the November 2022 regional premiere of Lisa Loomer's "ROE" at the Footlight Club, where she also serves on the Play Selection and JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) committees. Outside of her theatrical pursuits, Angele is a certified career coach and works with the higher education nonprofit Duet.

Event Producer. Arts Manager. Vocalist. Dunamis board member. Tiniqua is a Boston - based artist/producer specializing in intimate events. In 2016 she started her production company Meraki Productions LLC. (formerly known as Tiniqua&Co). As an inaugural member of Dunamis' Emerging Artist Fellowship Cohort, she was able to explore her dream of curating spaces for artists by founding the House Session Series in partnership with Dunamis, currently in its fourth season. Tiniqua's goal is to make the series a safe haven and launching pad for emerging artists of color in Boston. If Tiniqua is not celebrating artists at House Sessions, you can find her at the Eliot School as a curator for their Summer Concert Series or JP Porchfest curating a mainstage. If you are interested in planning an intimate event or learning more about Meraki Productions LLC. please visit our website. 

Cassie Wang is a multidisciplinary artist exploring contemporary dance, design, technology, and everything in between. She calls Kansas City home and is currently based in Boston. Cassie graduated magna cum laude from Pomona College in 2021 with a B.A. in Computer Science and minors in Dance and Media Studies. There, she had the opportunity to originate works with choreographers such as Derion Loman, Becca Lemme, and Ronit Ziv and was the recipient of the DanceJerusalem Scholarship and the Virginia Princehouse Allen Dance Award. Currently, Cassie is a company member with VLA DANCE and KAIROS Dance Theatre and freelances with local choreographers—most recently Jessi Stegall, Luminarium Dance, Dara Capley, and Chavi Bansal. Her choreographic works have been presented by the Solstice Dance Project, ACDA Baja, NACHMO Boston, Dunamis, and most recently by Resilience Dance Company in St. Louis.

Zakiyyah is an artist-activist who utilizes music and visual media to explore themes that centralize marginalized communities via her production company, Black and Bold Productions. As an actress and classically-trained singer who is well-versed in Opera, Hip-Hop, Jazz, and R&B, she employs her extremely versatile skill-set to reach a broad range of audiences and craft a sound that is uniquely her own--including her most well-known, "Hip-Hopera". In addition to her artistic practice, Zakiyyah currently teaches voice at Harvard’s Holden Voice Program and works as a racial equity consultant with Arts Connect International, helping arts organizations reassess their practices through the lens of equity and creative justice.

A 22-year-old creative and artist based in Boston, MA. He fell in love with music at a young age and started writing music on his own during his teen years with his friends. Some of his major influences comes from the sounds that are around him. Currently his signature style is R&B with alternative influences in it. He desires to genre bend and experiment with different sounds as his career continues.

Jo Troll is an aroace trans art-maker, teacher, and creative coach with a particular focus on using Irish dance as a means to build connection and community. Jo has studied Irish with Kieran Jordan since they were 11 years old, holds a graduate diploma in dance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and is experienced in a variety of traditional percussive dance practices. Jo has performed around Boston and virtually, including as part of OnStage Dance Company's Residency Program, Dancing Queerly, and Meraki's Y.A.M.S. The House Sessions, and teach regular virtual adult dance classes with students across the US and in Canada. Pre-pandemic, Jo also coordinated regular queer dance workshops in a variety of styles to create safe dance space and loves every minute spent dancing with their fellow queer folks.

Jay Connolly is a stage and film actor based out of Boston. Since graduating with a BFA in Performance from Salem State, Jay has been acting and teaching theatre throughout Massachusetts. Jay is also a certified fight choreographer and working his way into intimacy coordination as well. Some previous acting credits include: Through the Big Times and Back, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Hamlet, The Critic. Outside of the world of theatre, Jay is a certified personal trainer and works with a DJ/ Entertainment company, Party Excitement Entertainment.

Aliza Franz is a Boston based dancer, collaborator, and arts manager. She has had the pleasure of working with VLA Dance, Lorraine Chapman the Company, Eliza Malecki Dance, Rachel Linsky, and Abilities Dance Boston. Aliza graduated from Skidmore College in 2020, where they earned a double major in Dance: Performance and Choreography and Psychology, with a minor in Gender Studies. Outside of dance, Aliza is the Creative Director of Zamana Art, a company that fosters interpersonal connection and team building through the lens of art and creativity. She is incredibly grateful to be working with Dunamis again as facilitator for their newest program Artists Anonymous, a bimonthly community space for Boston-based creatives. Aliza continues to explore their identity through movement and advocate for diversity in creative spaces.

Shavonne Brown is a Boston-based singer/songwriter. She’s performed primarily with her band Petrichor as a featured vocalist since 2013, and was one of the first artists to headline a house session with Meraki. Shavonne comes from a heavily musical gospel singing background,and with that, music became her first love. Through singing, songwriting and performance, Shavonne hopes to create an experience for her audience that leaves them feeling loved, understood, and confident.

Aneesh Kumar (He/Him/His) is an Arts Administrator, Trombonist, and Advocate. As a Houston native, Aneesh started playing the trombone at the age of 11 following in the footsteps of his older brother. He attended Northwestern University, receiving a BA in Music Performance with the dream of performing across the globe. He has been fortunate to perform with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Pacific Music Festival, and was a founding member in the award-winning trombone quartet, “The eNq”. Aneesh currently serves as the Education Coordinator for Silkroad Ensemble, a social impact organization and touring ensemble focused on creating music that engages difference, sparks cultural collaboration, and provides meaningful educational opportunities to help build a more hopeful and inclusive world. Prior to joining Silkroad, he worked with Dunamis Boston as an Arts Management Apprentice. Through his work, Aneesh hopes to create equitable spaces and provide resources to artists across the globe.

Natalie Halsey is a student at Dartmouth College studying Film, French, and Studio Art. She worked with Dunamis in summer 2022 as an Arts Management Apprentice, and aspires to work in management on film production pipelines. Natalie also writes for the Dartmouth Jack’o’Lantern satire magazine!

Rauliz Paez Tamarez grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts. He got into art at a young age doing small sketches, but never fully delved into the arts field until later in his life. The spark that changed this was taking courses in Local art programs, which pushed his creative thinking and helped him figure out the kinds of mediums that genuinely interested him. Film was the main medium that caught his eye with how much versatility it allowed and the confidence it gave him. Now within his art, Rauliz finds himself experimenting with concepts outside of his comfort zone.

Michael is a teaching artist for Urban Improv/rehearsal for life. He is also a teacher at Shattuck Child Daycare Center. Michael has been working with youth for 15 years and is still as passionate as ever for teaching. He has also studied theatre at Boston Arts Academy, Suffolk University, Bunker Hill Community College and with Company One, a local Boston theatre. Theatre has been instrumental in Michaels life and teaching theatre is his life passion.

Kaila is a creative from West Philly currently wrapping up her BA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Tufts University. Black life, history, and futures are central to her creative practice. Her creative background is dance but she has recently been exploring and playing with a long-time interest in filmmaking and photography.  Her Philly roots remain strong and provide her with a particular care for community and a deep commitment to reflection and attunement to the needs and desires of the people and stories she works alongside. Her practice is constantly evolving as she learns, reads, watches, and collaborates. 

Jade Etienne is a young, enterprising mezzo-soprano from Boston, MA . The root of her passion to pursue singing professionally stems from her childhood experiences, and a desire to encourage low-income black and brown students like her to pursue music. She believes that when these children are given proper music education, and provided with the resources to be able to explore the arts further, their entire livelihoods, experiences, creative outlets, and futures may be opened up in a way they would never have known otherwise. Jade is especially passionate about closing the gap of access to musical opportunities and tools to pursue the arts for these communities. At Gordon College, she is a leader on the council of the Black student union and works hard to make sure the Black community of her campus facilitates and participates in important conversations. Jade will graduate from Gordon College in voice. Through her primary education she grew into pursuing vocal performance, participating in chamber and advanced choral music, as well as beginning to study solo vocal repertoire. Choral music has played a special role in her development as a voice student as well. She looks forward to continuing her studies at the graduate level, and pursuing a career in opera after achieving her masters in vocal performance, and pursuing a career in teaching, studying, and flourishing as an artist.

Susanna Turner (She/Her) was born in Bogota, Colombia. Along with her adoptive mother, an international school principal from Newton, MA, Susanna has lived in six different countries: Colombia, Argentina, India, Pakistan, USA & Venezuela. She is passionate about telling stories about being an adoptee, growing up internationally, and being a Third Culture Kid. She is an actor, photographer, visual artist & storyteller, represented by WSM Talent (Boston / New York).

Jude Torres (he/him) is a multi-hyphenate actor-educator-musician-singer-songwriter. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Boston by Filipino immigrants, Jude has carved a unique path at the intersection of art and science. Jude has worked on stage, film, and voiceover work with The Umbrella, Boston Theater Marathon, Company One, Footlight Club, Phoenix Playmakers, Moonstruck Theater, Boston Rock Opera, Fresh Ink, Chuang Stage, Central Square, AAPI Playwright Collective, New Rep, Speakeasy, Liberty Mutual, L’Oreal, and Paramount Pictures. He is a Board Member of the Footlight Club as he serves as the Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI). Jude has had the privilege of studying at Boston Latin School, Emmanuel College, Community Music Center of Boston, New England Conservatory, Harvard Extension School, and the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Jude is the current Clinical Fellow of Speech Language Pathology at the Outpatient Clinic of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Cambridge, and is set to receive his Certificate of Clinical Competence. Jude would like to send love to the amazing 2023 EAF cohort, the entire Dunamis fam, every plate of nachos he’s ever eaten, and as always, Munchkin the cat.

Shelley Polanco is an Afro-Latina photographer and visual storyteller. Her background in Politics and Black Studies have inspired her artistry to produce truthful and authentic archives that narrate a clear picture of our lives. Her photography has morphed with time, beginning with nature and street photography. Now, Shelley is crafting a Latinx Portrait Gallery as a grant recipient for Brandeis University. She has curated several galleries of her works, including an interactive exhibit and artist talk for Dunamis Boston. You can find her at www.shotbyshell.com. 

Jacquinn Sinclair is a Boston-area-based journalist, author, and poet. Currently, she’s a contributing performing arts writer and theater critic for WBUR The ARTery. Typically, her writing seeks to highlight creatives and organizations whose work is at the intersection of art and activism. Jacquinn’s stories and poems have been anthologized in the International Women’s Writing Guild’s “Heels into the Soil: Stories & Poems Resisting the Silence” and “New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State.” She is also a 2023 Dunamis Boston’s Emerging Artist Fellow. An avid traveler and food enthusiast, Jacquinn’s writing has appeared in various publications, including The Boston Globe, Momentum, Lonely Planet, and more.

Tanvi Shah (She/her) is a South Asian singer-songwriter who grew up in both the suburbs of Boston and the South of India (shoutout to Chennai!). She uses her lyrics and music to express herself and she covers a variety of topics from body image to friendship to anxiety and is on her self-exploration journey through music. Tanvi released her first single ‘Home’ on Spotify in January 2023 and is currently working on her debut EP. Tanvi enjoys figuring out harmonies and singing covers in addition to original music, which you can find on her TikTok, and is always down to support local music and add extra garlic to any food she eats!

Jessica Hernandez is a DJ, producer, and sound artist. She is interested in dance oriented works and experimental forms of electronic music that challenge listeners through discordant arrangements and visceral rhythms. Jessica is currently the Arthaus Gallery Manager for Unbound Visual Arts, where she is drawn to works that function as modes of cultural critique and forms of intellectual thought. She received her B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Swarthmore College (2020) and her M.A. in History from the University of Virginia (2022).

Mary Orji is a multi-instrumentalist creative shape shifter from Endicott, NY. Her main voice can be heard from the tenor saxophone and poetry. She is inspired musically and compositionally  by the works of many artists such as Alice Coltrane and Grover Washington to name a few. Her music is to express her love for the higher power by evoking into the ancestors through fuses of poems with music, rhythm, freeness and tapping into the collective consciousness of the universe to bring healing and light to anyone that listens. 

Tori DelValle is a multi-disciplinary artist whose uncanny, bizarre and darkly humorous works explore the themes of identity, femininity, generational trauma, hidden truths, history and childhood. Influenced by her inner city upbringing within a Puerto Rican enclave and inspired by artists like Lady Pink, Rixy, and Imagine876, her art has a foundation rooted in the vibrant and rebellious world of graffiti and street art. She employs bold strokes and surrealist techniques to challenge perceptions, provoke thought, and ignite a sense of wonder. Through the juxtaposition of elements drawn from the realms of humor and fantasy horror, she seeks to blur the boundaries between the known and the unknown, the beautiful and the grotesque. In doing so, she invites viewers to confront their fears, embrace the absurd, and discover beauty in the darkest corners of the imagination.

Beatriz Whitehill is a Puerto Rican-American multidisciplinary artist. Her work addresses diasporic communities through a visual representation of the resilience and endurance of culture. Her paintings are full of hidden imagery- worlds within everyday objects. The vibrancy of the paint colors she uses are taken from lush Caribbean landscapes. Her practice also includes elements of design, sculpture, and stop motion animation created from her paintings and illustrations.

My fundamental understanding of art and music today is rooted in my ancestral history: the deep and raw emotions that went on to shape most of the genres that we enjoy today. African-American stories and traditions have a longstanding history of being erased from our textbooks, which continues to cause a great divide and lack of understanding of many of our rich black traditions.​

What makes New Orleans, my hometown, so unique is that many deeply rooted black and African-American traditions have remained present and continue to influence the city’s art and heritage. Similarly to what spirituals meant to enslaved African-Americans, gospel and spiritual music is what keeps me grounded and reminds me of my artistic roots. I want to share my blueprint for profound imagination and re-imagine traditional music and art. I embody my city’s heritage and carry the unwavering voices of my ancestors through my music and I invite my audiences to allow themselves to feel the joy, the pain, and every emotion that comes with engaging with this work.

“As a child, my idols were hip-hop artists. Moms had New York rappers from the ‘90s filling my home with their stories. In the world inside of my head, you could deeply connect with their spirits through rhythms and lyrics. In reality, they were complete strangers to me. Still in many ways, they made me who I am.

Now that kid grew up, lived life, and grabbed the microphone for himself. In all that time, I had one goal for myself. To see what my moments of joy, pain, and triumph can do for you.”

Allegra Fletcher is an Afro Caribbean Latina cultural strategist, educator, and artist. Her practice is rooted in a deep and embodied commitment to transformative social justice. She enjoys exploring ways to decolonize expressions of faith, knowledge, and cultural production, and aims to cultivate spaces where others can do the same. Allegra has received recognition for her work on numerous occasions, including being named a member of the 2021 cohort of WBUR ARTery 25. You can find her article, “The Art of Belonging: Exploring the Impact of the Garífuna on Honduran Culture and Identity”, in Arts Management, Cultural Policy, & the African Diaspora, published through Springer International Publishing in 2022.

Vim is a visual artist and filmmaker who aims to create art that transcends beyond visual narration. He approaches filmmaking as a journey of self-realization and introspection. By capturing the world around him, he confronts his own biases, cultural conditioning, and preconceived notions. Each film becomes a canvas for Vim to examine his worldview and challenge the limitations of his perspectives. Filmmaking is a multi-layered art form. Does it serve purely as entertainment or can it serve as a medium for social change and impact? In Vim’s filmmaking journey, he does not seek to find answers but rather embraces the exploration of possibilities. Vim believes that the true essence of filmmaking lies not in defining what it is, but in pushing the boundaries of what it could be. Through experimentation and innovation, Vim believes that filmmaking will only keep growing as an art form and transform beyond our imagination.

Alexis Smith is a Dorchester resident and the mother of Ameen Lacy who was shot on December 06, 2017 during a sporting event. Since losing Ameen, She has dedicated herself and her art to healing and supporting the healing of others. Alexis loves working collaboratively with youth, families and other survivors to create art together. “ I feel it's time we create a new way to honor our loved ones that helps us heal by seeing artwork through our city to create a balance for the pain. This is our chance to change the narrative our community has been enduring through healing art. Our community is striving for change in a different way for our future, careers, families and all the principles of peace. Our legacy depends on it, the kids are depending on us to find a new way to heal through art.”

Sarah Perez is a Hawai'i born singer-songwriter and cardiac nurse. Her artistry represents the audacity of being so unapologetically yourself, that you can transform the most undesirable parts of who you art into something irrefutably beautiful.

Jane Kim-Testa is a multimedia artist, writer, and singer who loves to make art in all sorts of forms: digital illustration, painting, crocheting, spinning fiber, chorale singing, writing prose, you name it. Having grown up moving across several countries and traveling to even more, they love to tell stories of diverse viewpoints and intersectionality in their writing and art. They are fascinated by nature and frequently draw inspiration from its many aspects - flora, fauna, wind, water, and space. 

They are currently based in Boston where they live with their husband and domestic blizzard (dog).

Karina Ithier is an actress, poet, and educator, based in Boston. She is immensely grateful to be joining the Dunamis family. She currently acts with Liars and Believers and is a teaching artist with Actor's Shakespeare Project. Favorite acting regional credits include Peterborough Players, Wellesley Repertory Theater, and Theater at Monmouth. To her, art is about reflecting the times, as Nina Simone once stated. Some of her inspirations include Paulo Friere, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rita Dove, James Baldwin, and Fiona Apple. She strives to continue speaking her truth and centering women's voices.

Micandre Constable is a multifaceted artist and scientist of Jamaican heritage who was born and raised in Queens, New York. His artistic journey began during his college years with the poetry club Verbal Asylum, where he honed his skills as both a performer and curator of spoken word poetry and music events, eventually leading to performances at venues like BRIC and The Nuyorican Poets Cafe. In 2018, Constable founded The Nu Blaque, a collective that nurtured emerging New York artists while maintaining his career as a scientist to support his artistic endeavors until the collective's conclusion in 2021. Now based in Boston, he balances his work at a biotech startup with writing grants for non-profit organizations and crafting short stories, drawing inspiration from literary giants such as Percival Everett, Ralph Ellison, Nikki Giovanni, and Amiri Baraka.

Maria Amalia Quesada Chavarría is a vocalist, cultural manager, arts program director, and educator whose voice and leadership emerge from deep roots in Costa Rica, her immigrant journey, her embodied experience with endometriosis, and the living power of sound. Her work moves between interdisciplinary performance and community-based creation, weaving the wisdom of Mother Earth, improvisation, and radical care as tools for healing and transformation.

As a singer, she embraces the raw voice as a space of resistance and liberation, drawing on Latin American folklore, improvisation, and richly layered sonic textures.

She cultivates spaces where listening, bold creation, and justice come together. Her practice seeks to decolonize and dismantle patriarchal structures — uplifting silenced voices, beginning with her own, challenging dominant narratives, and honoring the living knowledge of Mother Earth.

Candice Threat, also known as Joyce the Singer, is an emerging producer, manager, and artist from Detroit, Michigan, with a long-lasting passion for the arts. She is a recent graduate of Berklee College of Music, and double majored in Contemporary Writing and Production and Music Business/Management. Throughout her studies, she increased her skills in creative execution, project management, arranging, and performance. A few of her achievements include producing the Michael Jackson Ensemble: Human Nature at Berklee, interning for the 39th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards, and creating her original show, Joyce the Singer: Through the Seasons. She strives to continue to grow, and hopes to make a meaningful impact through art, connection, and community.

Michael Atkins is a freelance digital artist, video editor, and animator. An amicable mentor throughout both high school and college, he holds a strong passion for animation, film, and game design. Graduating Magna Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2024, he possesses a bachelor's degree in art and an academic minor in computer science. Since graduation Michael has been broadening his horizons towards the various opportunities within the creative industry and the cultural world around him. Along his journey he aims to contribute to numerous projects that leave a lasting impact on audiences. Especially in regards to creative works which explore the understanding and actualization of one’s own identity.

Amira Sheikh a multidisciplinary artist, art educator, and emerging creative entrepreneur dedicated to harnessing the transformative power of art to foster connection, healing, and social change.

Rooted in the belief that storytelling is a powerful vehicle for empowerment, Amira’s work weaves together cultural preservation, spiritual exploration, and community engagement. Through interdisciplinary approaches and collaborative practices, she bridges art and education to cultivate spaces for reflection, dialogue, and hope.

Amira envisions building creative spaces and enterprises that amplify this mission on a larger scale—offering programs, experiences, and platforms that elevate underrepresented voices and position art as a catalyst for collective healing and systemic transformation. She aspires to leave a lasting legacy of beauty, introspection, and impact for generations to come.