Meet Our Team

Hope is a creative producer, facilitator, and non-profit arts leader. Hope is called to center joy and justice to shift systems of power to radically support the underserved culture makers in her community. Her highlight reel includes adventures at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Associate Producer) and Long Wharf Theatre (Director of Artistic Planning). Hope serves as Co-President of The New Haven Pride Center's Board and as an advisory council member with Accountability for Abundance ( Theatre Communications Group).

Rebekah, a New Haven native, is known for her vibrant spirit, welcoming aura, and devotion to youth and community. She graduated from Southern CT State University with a Bachelors in Psychology & is the co-owner of #ThaTeam Podcast and is their Program Manager. She is  passionate about uplifting artists by pushing them to their fullest potential. As Program Director, her goal is to fill the need for artistic creativity and engage the community in all artforms.

Markeshia is a recovering journalist turned voice actor who dabbles in blogging, podcasting and photography. Before joining the Arts Council she wrote for the New Haven Independent, Air Force Times, the Montgomery Advertiser, the Anniston Star, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and the Tuscaloosa News.

Mina attended Albertus Magnus College for her undergraduate degree in Art Management and her  Entrepreneurship minor, as well as her MBA. She teaches art classes for students at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford in the summer months.  Her magnum opus was curating a show called As⋅Sem⋅Blage at Albertus and the article can be found in the Arts Paper. She loves quilting, collaging, and crocheting! 

Thomas is the editor of the New Haven Independent, with which the Arts Paper shares content. As a part-time contributing editor to the Arts Paper, he proofs articles, bounces around ideas with Editor Lucy Gellman, and asks questions that inform the reporting of the Arts Paper.