Jennifer Epstein was born and raised in the City of Boston. She holds the strong belief that arts and culture, and sports and entertainment fuel the passion, creativity and intellectual curiosity of a city but also present unique opportunities to forge connections across neighborhoods, race,  gender and economics. She is proud to be the managing partner of Boston Unity Soccer Partners, which will soon be the newest expansion team in the National Women’s Soccer League here in the city of Boston and one of America’s first professional sports teams owned, managed  and operated by women. The Epstein family have been co-owners and managing partners of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise since 2002. 

Believing in the power of female-led, diverse leadership teams to drive greater returns, Jennifer Epstein founded Juno Equity in 2018 to make  seed round investments in female founded companies, largely in the  consumer, tech and sports industries. In addition to Juno Equity, Jennifer  is also a co-founder of Wildlife Hospitality, the creator of 3 award winning, highly successful restaurant concepts in the Boston area. 

Jennifer is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Contemporary Art where she has established a fund for women artists, a founding member of the Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation Advisory Board at Mass General Brigham, and a Member of the Now + There Advisory Board and Triennial Advisory Board. Jennifer holds a BA from University of Pennsylvania and a JD from Boston College.

Cher Krause Knight is Professor of Art History at Emerson College. Dr. Knight's publications include the following books: Museums and Public Art? (co-edited with Harriet F. Senie; hardcover 2018/paperback 2021, Cambridge Scholars Publishing); A Companion to Public Art (co-edited with Senie; hardcover 2016/paperback 2020, Wiley Blackwell); Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World (hardcover 2014/paperback 2019, University Press of Florida); and Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism (hardcover/paperback 2008, Blackwell Publishing). She is the co-founder of Public Art Dialogue, an international professional organization devoted to providing an interdisciplinary critical forum for the field. Professor Knight also co-founded the journal Public Art Dialogue (published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis), was its co-editor through Spring 2017, and now serves on its editorial board. Additionally she is on the advisory board of Now + There, and just completed her term on the board of directors at Boston Art Review (a nonprofit arts organization, which publishes a regionally focused periodical on contemporary art). Dr. Knight served as the Memorial/Public Art Research Advisor for the One Boston Resilience Project (Boston Art Commission and Mayor's Office of Arts + Culture, City of Boston), as well as the Public Art Scholar on the Art Committee for the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King Memorial (Boston Art Commission, City of Boston, jointly with Embrace Boston nonprofit organization). Her current book project, Memorials Now, is under contract with Wiley (co-authoring with Senie).

Paul Ramírez Jonas selected solo exhibitions include Museo Jumex, Mexico City; The New Museum, NYC; Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo; The Aldrich Contemporary Museum, Connecticut; The Blanton Museum, Texas; a survey at Ikon Gallery (UK) and Cornerhouse (UK) in 2004, and a 25 year survey at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston in 2017. Selected group exhibitions at P.S.1; the Brooklyn Museum; The Whitechapel (UK); Irish Museum of Modern Art (Ireland); and Kunsthaus Zurich. He participated in the 1st Johannesburg Biennale; 1st Seoul Biennial; 6th Shanghai Biennial; 28th Sao Paulo Biennial; 53rd Venice Biennial and 7th and 10th Bienal do Mercosul. In 2010 his Key to the City project was presented by Creative Time in cooperation with the City of New York and in 2022 with Fierce and Birmingham 2022 Festival in Birmingham, UK. In 2016 his Public Trust project was presented by Now & There in Boston. He is a Professor and Art Department Chair, at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University and is represented by the Galeria Nara Roesler in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and New York.

Catherine T. Morris is a proud mother, entrepreneur, and visionary, who works at the intersection of arts, culture, spatial justice and movement building. Over the last 20 years, Catherine has spent her career in supporting BIPOC artists by producing shows, creating platforms as well as mobilizing and engaging local audiences to experience the arts from a Black perspective.

Currently, she is the Director of Arts and Culture at The Boston Foundation, where she leads the strategic thinking, evaluation and implementation around grantmaking and the ways in which Foundation can best serve artists, communities and arts-supporters-at-large.

Ms. Morris is also the Founder and Artistic Director of Boston Art & Music Soul (BAMS) Fest, Ms. Morris has led this nonprofit organization toward becoming a cultural movement that breaks down racial and social barriers to arts, music and culture for communities and artists of color across Greater Boston and beyond. Since 2015, BAMS Fest has employed, supported and presented 700+ local artists, provided 600+ jobs to creative entrepreneurs, activated (40+) public spaces and has attracted over (70,000+) attendees to their programs.

Catherine is the former Director of Public Programs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where she diversified programming that welcomed audiences and artists of color; led strategic thinking, planning and collaboration across departments, and increased access and visibility for local and national BIPOC artists, collaborators, entertainers and audiences including Jill Scott, Phonte Coleman, Oompa, Paloma Valenzuela, OJ Slaughter, and Mumu Fresh.

Ms. Morris has been a presenter, panelist and moderator with SPARK Boston, Podcast Garage, Berklee College of Music, Emerson College, Northeastern University, Simmons University, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, the Esplanade Association, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Museum of Fine Arts. She is a 2021 National Art Strategies Forward Thinking Fellow, a 2018 National Art Strategies Creative Community Fellow (The Barr Foundation), The Boston Neighborhood Fellowship (The Boston Foundation), and has served on grant review panels for Live Arts Boston, City of Boston Artists in Residence, Cambridge Arts Council, and The Lewis Prize for Music.

Catherine is an alumna of Temple University School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management in Philadelphia, PA, and received her Masters of Science from Simmons University (Boston, MA). It is Catherine’s hope that BAMS Fest becomes a pipeline to Boston’s arts and culture ecosystem and creative economy in a manner that minimizes implicit bias, closes the racial wealth gap, inspires hope, and positively impacts the livelihoods of future creatives.

Rixy (she/her, b. 1995) is an interdisciplinary street artist creating Sculptural Paintings + Public Art that focuses on worldbuilding stylized narratives of global femme embodiment and social healing. She is a first-generation women born in Roxbury, MA and bred by Latinx Caribbean blood, making her work rooted in the many cultures along her migration. She is primarily self-taught via the streets + institutions of her travels, that feed the upcycled materialism of her pigments, marks, and stories.

Rixy recently mounted solo shows at the Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons University and Montserrat College of Art, both in MA. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL; Rosa Projects, Oakland, CA; and the MECA Art Fair in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic. She has collaborated with global affiliates like the NFL, Nike, and the U.S + UAE Embassy. Rixy’s private + public art activate communal walls beyond her base in New England.

She is recognized with accomplishments including New England Foundation for the Arts Newell Flather Award for Leadership in Public Art, the Now + There Public Art Accelerator Program, a Ruth Butler Fellowship to Mexico, and the Walter Feldman Fellowship. Rixy’s residencies include the Boston Center for the Arts, TheCreateWell’s Converging Liberations Residency at Mass MoCA, and a Teaching Street Artist Residency with Next Level USA hosted in Dubai, UAE. Committed to arts education along with her practice, Rixy serves as a Resident Artist + 'Elevated Spaces' Producer at Elevated Thought in Lawrence, MA, and has taught at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Teens program, Harvard University, MIT, and as a faculty member at Boston Architectural College.

Abigail Satinsky is the Program Officer & Curator for Arts and Culture at the Wagner Foundation, based in Cambridge, MA. Previously she was Curator & Head of Public Engagement at Tufts University Art Galleries, where she organized a variety of exhibitions including projects with Sofía Córdova, Museum of Capitalism, Faheem Majeed, Gabriel Sosa, Press Press, amongst others, and the traveling group exhibition Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities (with Erina Duganne). She also served as Program Director for the Collective Futures Fund, supporting artist-run projects in Greater Boston through The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. She has extensive experience directing residency, exhibitions, and granting programs at Threewalls in Chicago, cofounding Hand in Glove, a national conference for artist-run culture, and InCUBATE Sunday Soup, an international micro-granting program for socially engaged projects. As a writer, she was a regular contributor to the Bad at Sports podcast, edited the books Support Networks and PHONEBOOK, which focus on socially-engaged art and cultural organizing across the United States, as well the catalogue publication for Art for the Future, and received the Art Journal Award for distinction from the College Art Association.