Schomburg Center

Novella Ford

Associate Director, Public Programs and Exhibitions

Novella Ford is the Associate Director of Public Programs and Exhibitions at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research division of The New York Public Library and one of the world’s leading cultural institutions devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of
materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences. She has organized hundreds of public programs at the intersection of scholarship and popular culture. She connects diverse audiences to the archives and engages history through dialogue, performance, literature, and visual arts.

Photo by: Ernest A. Ford

http://www.schomburgcenter.org

Adobe

Annick Shen

Deputy Director of Editorial

Annick Shen is the Deputy Director for Adobe’s new Editorial Content Team with Santiago Lyon. Previously, she was a Senior Producer for Blink Media, a NY production house. In 2015 and 2017, she worked with Elisabeth Biondi on Mauricio Lima’s Syrian refugee exhibit, Farida, Um Conto Sírio, and on the Annenberg Space for Photography Refugee exhibit, that was done in collaboration with the UNHRC. Prior to this, Annick was the Senior Communications Coordinator for Photography and worked with Documentary Photography Project for the Open Society Foundations. From 2007-2012, she was a Senior Photo Editor at Reportage by Getty Images.

Photo by Laurel Wassner

Photo Kathmandu

NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati

Festival Director

NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati lives in Kathmandu, Nepal and works at the intersections of visual storytelling, research, pedagogy, and collective action. In 2007, she co-founded photo.circle; a platform that facilitates learning, exhibition making, and publishing opportunities for Nepali photographers that is working in increasingly trans-disciplinary ways. In 2011, she co-founded Nepal Picture Library; a digital archiving initiative that works towards diversifying Nepali social and cultural history, by centering the histories of women, Dalit, Madhesi, indigenous and queer people. NayanTara is also the co-founder and Festival Director of Photo Kathmandu, an international festival that takes place in Kathmandu every two years.

Photo by: Sagar Chhetri