BWVA Foundation Team
Lauren Jackson Harris
Director of Outreach and Partnerships
Daricia Mia DeMarr
Executive Director
BWVAF Board of Directors
Kristen Cahill
Board Chair, Opportunity Wrangler
Kristen V. Cahill is a creative consultant, collaborator and independent curator living in Atlanta. As the principal of her firm, she’s consulted on creative, marketing and strategy projects for corporate clients, curated and built a museum quality art collection and designed interiors for residential clients in the Southeast. Outside of her firm, she’s had the pleasure of working for the same boss three times at three different companies spearheading brand and creative direction. She also worked with Peace Design and Tim Hobby Design on national, high-end residential projects. And she spent the 90’s in NYC working with Calvin Klein, Barneys New York, Saks Fifth Avenue, KCD and up-and-coming fashion designers. READ MORE
Sammetria Goodson
Board Member aka Obstacle Clearer
Sammetria is an Attorney who focuses her practice on Art Law and Intellectual Property. Sammetria works with a wide range of art industry clients including artists, art agencies, collectors, consultants, cultural organizations, dealers, galleries, and independent curators. She also works with creatives, designers, makers, and artisans in various intellectual property and cultural heritage-based enterprises. READ MORE
Dr. julia elizabeth neal
Board Member, Education and Programming Strategist
julia elizabeth neal is a scholar of modern and contemporary US and African American Art. In 2023, she joined the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor and is currently on leave as a postdoctoral fellow for the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute. Prior to Michigan, neal lectured at Spelman College and Georgia State University. Her research considers the relationship between emergent politics of identity and transnationalism to visual, conceptual, and sonic, experimentation.