• NEW HARLEM GALLERY

• WISTERIA ARTSPACE

• EMMA MAE GALLERY

"Rev. Dr. Sandra Butler-Truesdale, a native Washingtonian, is an ordained licensed minister, serving as Assistant Minister and Local Deacon at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, DC. She is the Founder and Chair of the DC Legendary Musicians, Inc., a 501c3 service organization, and a former member of the Howard Theatre Board and currently serves as chairperson of the Howard Theatre Community Committee. She is the programmer, writer, and ; producer of “Don’t Forget the Blues” on Wednesdays on WPFW Radio, 89.3 FM.

Dr. Butler-Truesdale is a DC historian and Rhythm and Blues historian. She has worked for several musicians, among them the late Ray Charles and James Brown. She continues to work to document the history of this great music and the musicians of the DMV.

Dr. Butler-Truesdale is co-author of the book, Washington DC Jazz."

• PHILLIPS COLLECTION

"The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company." - https://www.phillipscollection.org/

• THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART

"The Corcoran Gallery of Art was an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University. " - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art

HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT SUMMER CAMP ACADEMY 

Higher Achievement is "where talent and opportunity meet to launch lifelong success."

Samuel H. Dodson IV

"A Father to a wonderfully creative and joyous 4-year-old son. A husband of 14 years to a loving and supportive wife. A lifetime learner an artist, and a teacher of the craft for nearly 20 years.

Art is a huge part of my life inside and outside of school, so I feel blessed to be able to share my passion and knowledge with the students here at DCI.

Mr. Dodson graduated from Denison University in 1998 with a Bachelor’s Degree, and served as a founding member of the teaching staff at Hyde Leadership Public Charter School. After 8 years in the classroom, he took on more leadership opportunities with Higher Achievement as the Ward 6, and Kramer Achievement Centers for 10 years. Now, Mr. Dodson is in his 3rd year at DCI teaching art, and feeling at home in this awesome community."​

​YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS' THEATRE (YPT)

Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT) "inspires young people to realize the power of their own voices. The only professional theater in Washington, DC dedicated entirely to arts education, YPT engages local students in an innovative, standards-based playwriting program then produces the student plays with professional theater artists on stages around the District." - yptdc.org 

"Laurie helps manage and support teams who work with DC educators, school leaders, community-based and systems-level actors to effectively and equitably engage families in student success.  She helps to design, refine and maintain systems and structures to support our teacher, school, and district partnerships to meet the complex ongoing needs of students and families.Laurie believes that improving our society as a whole begins with providing every child with a high-quality education, and that in order to achieve this, a focus on equity is necessary.

Prior to joining Flamboyan, Laurie was a Research Assistant with the Neuro-Education Initiative at the Johns Hopkins School of Education. She earned a Master of Education with a concentration in Urban Education from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to graduate school, she spent the first six years of her career as a Program Manager at Young Playwrights’ Theater, a nationally recognized arts education non-profit in Washington, D.C. She has also worked in various capacities with the Kennedy Center, Imagination Stage, Arena Stage, and Roundhouse Theater. Laurie holds B.A.s in English, Theater Arts, and Education from Stonehill College.

Laurie lives in Takoma Park, MD with her husband and their cat."

"Nicole Jost has been affiliated with Young Playwrights’ Theater since 2002 when she was a sophomore at Wilson High School. In September of 2007 the YPT Wire profiled her work as a college intern, teaching the summer playwriting class at Bell Multicultural High School.  This past fall YPT was thrilled to have Nicole join its team as Program Assistant.  She works with associate director Patrick Torres to administer YPT’s programs serving over 500 students throughout DC. 

Nicole’s presence at YPT is a gift," says Patrick Torres.  "Not only is she an accomplished writer, director and teacher in her own right, but she also serves as an example to our students of what they could be."

Nicole taught during the fall at Plummer Elementary and Capital City Public Charter School. "I’ve been very fortunate to witness playwriting take hold in my students. I’ve seen them completely shift their perception of what writing is," she says. "My students at Plummer Elementary School became really excited every time they got out paper and pen. They took ownership of their work, and found a space for imagination in the medium. It was beautiful."

Nicole plans to start her own theater company, where artists will work as an ensemble to create new work. For now, she’s pleased to be back in her hometown of Washington, DC.  She recently directed One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest at her alma mater, Wilson High School."

Gloria Quirarte

Enrichment Program Coordinator, Mundo Verde Public Charter School

Gloria Quirarte supervises the implementation of quality enrichment for Before & After School Programs, as well as for school-wide special programming. Prior to Mundo Verde, she worked for five years as Director of Operations at Multicultural Community Services in DC. She was also Executive Assistant to the Director at CentroNía for three years, Project Director at the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, and Program Specialist for Hispanas Unidas in San Antonio Texas. Gloria obtained her master’s in social cultural anthropology from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and has a bachelor’s in political science from Swarthmore College.

Auriela Akpan, DC International School 

District of Columbia International School is a public charter school in Washington, DC.  

EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON, D.C.

"The Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington, D.C. (formerly the Washington DCJCC) is a Jewish Community Center located in the historic district of Dupont Circle. It serves the Washington, D.C. area through religious, cultural, educational, social, and sport center programs open to the public, although many programs are strongly linked to Jewish culture, both in the United States and in Israel. It is part of the JCC Association (JCCA), the umbrella organization for the Jewish Community Center movement, which includes more than 350 JCCs, YM-YWHAs, and camp sites in the U.S. and Canada, in addition to 180 local JCCs in the Former Soviet Union, 70 in Latin America, 50 in Europe, and close to 500 smaller centers in Israel.

Among the many notable programs sponsored by the EDCJCC are Theater J, a theater group that has hosted world premieres of plays by noted Jewish playwrights such as Wendy Wasserstein, Richard Greenberg, and Ariel Dorfman; the Washington Jewish Music Festival; the Jewish Literary Festival; and the Washington Jewish Film Festival, that includes screenings both at the Center itself, and at other Washington, DC, institutions, including a number of foreign embassies representing nations that produced the films.

The EDCJCC also houses the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Library, which includes a Jewish Heritage Video Collection, a children's reading collection, and a collection of genealogy books and materials. It is a constituent organization of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, serving Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia."

Mr. Justin Love served as the program manager for the Summer Camp in 2018.