Red Emma’s

Acknowledged as the nation’s foremost expert in Audience Development by the Arts & Business Council, Donna Walker-Kuhne has devoted her professional career to increasing access to the arts. She has raised over $20 million in earned income promoting the arts to multicultural communities. She is currently Vice President, Community Engagement at New Jersey Performing Arts Center, charged with developing and deepening relationships with targeted communities through partnerships, special events, and group sales. She was formerly Vice President, Marketing and Communications for New Jersey Performing Arts Center. She is also founder of Walker International Communications Group, a boutique marketing, press, and audience development consulting agency. Her team specializes in multicultural marketing, group sales, multicultural press, and promotional events.

Victoria Adams-Kennedy is the Programming Director for Charm City Cultural Cultivation—our neighbors at 3100 Greenmount Avenue—dedicated to building opportunities for cultural growth in Baltimore’s inner city, and empowering the lives of underrepresented residents by investing in community collaboration, fostering creativity and preserving the history and legacy carved out by previous generations while looking to the future. She is a fiction writer who writes about the complexities of relationships with a focus on midlife. She is the author of Sometimes Love, published in 2017 by Brown Girls Books. Her second novel, Don’t Walk Away, was published in 2019. Her short fiction has appeared in midnight & indigo and TORCH Literary Arts, for which it was nominated for Best of the Net. She is the founder of Zora’s Den, a group for Black women writers for which she co-edited their anthologies, The Fire Inside, Volumes I, II & III. Victoria has an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts. She writes and resides in Baltimore, Maryland.