MUSICIANS, DANCERS & DJS
TRADE & CRAFT ARTISANS
VISUAL ARTISTS
POETS & STORYTELLERS
MEDIA MAKERS
SKATERS
RESEARCHERS & COMMUNITY SCHOLARS
Jazmín Morales
Named one of Musical America’s Top Movers and Shakers in the Performing Arts, Jazmín Morales is a violinist, activist, and administrator dedicated to helping young artists use their gifts to enact meaningful change in the world. A classically trained violinist who also grew up playing mariachi and other regional Mexican music, Morales has spent her life and career navigating the space between classical and folk art traditions and acting as a cultural translator between these worlds.
Cassandra Quayson
Cassandra Quayson is a Ghanaian American writer and graduate of the New York University MFA Program in Creative Writing, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. She is a writing consultant at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, 2024–25 Poetry Coalition Fellow, and the Network Manager of the National Youth Poet Laureate Program. A finalist for the 2025 FSG Writers’ Fellowship, her work is informed by love, abolition, and her studies in sociolinguistics; she is currently working on her first novel.
