HEAR US 2024 Panelists & Mentors

Meet the HEAR US 2024 mentor/panelists, without whom HEAR US would not be possible. These are the brilliant professional artists, scholars and hybrid practitioners - the field leaders and innovators - who fully and generously bring themselves to the rigorous HEAR US application review process, and then serve as project mentors to the HEAR US awardees. Their commitment to HEAR US is demonstrated in their participation but also in their questions, and their provocations to do better. We are grateful to each and every one!

  • Ari Melenciano

    Ari Melenciano

    Artist, Technologist, Researcher, and Theorist

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Chitra Aiyar

    Chitra Aiyar

    Attorney, Educator, Community-Builder

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Christina Salgado

    Christina Salgado

    Assistant Dean, Diversity

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Dawn-Elin Fraser

    Dawn-Elin Fraser

    ACADEMIC DIRECTOR, ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Francine Torres

    Francine Torres

    ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • George Emilio Sanchez

    George Emilio Sanchez

    Performance Director of Emergenyc, Professor College of Staten Island - City University of New York

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Gina Goico

    Gina Goico

    Multidisciplinary Artist, Educator and Self-proclaimed Necia

    2024 Mentor

  • Gustavo Aguilar

    GUSTAVO AGUILAR

    ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR, OPEN ARTS

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Josefina Lopez

    Josefina Lopez

    Writer/Producer/Artivist

    2024 Mentor

  • Linsey Bostwick

    Linsey Bostwick

    Deputy Director NYU Production Lab

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Mary Bitel

    Mary Bitel

    Associate Arts Professor

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Rosemary Quinn

    Rosemary Quinn

    Academic Director; Arts Professor

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Shanelle Gabriel

    Shanelle Gabriel

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, URBAN WORD/ POET & SINGER

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Sean Fader

    Sean Fader

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, REPRESENTATION IN THE ARTS CLUSTER

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Shindy Johnson

    SHINDY JOHNSON

    Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Faculty

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Susan-Sojourna Collier

    Susan-Sojourna Collier

    Assistant Arts Professor

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Traci Lester

    Traci Lester

    Nonprofit Executive and Board Member

    2024 Panelist & Mentor

  • Victor Peterson II

    Victor Peterson II

    Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences - The Cooper Union

    2024 Panelist & Mentor