Daniels academic background includes a BA in Interior Design and a BA in Art History & Visual Culture with a minor in Museum Studies. Daniels is passionate about the arts and the community; her experience includes over ten years in the arts field with particular expertise in gallery settings and community engagement. Daniels grew up in the Lansing area and has lived NYC and abroad before returning to the area. In her current role she serves as the Exhibitions & Gallery Sales Director at Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center overseeing over 100 Michigan artists in the gallery's exhibitions and public art programs. Recently ARTpath, the Gallery's current public art project co-founded by Daniels was featured in the Americans for the Arts. Additionally, Daniels jury's Statewide and has twice served as a mentor in the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentorship program in Detroit. Daniels is also the co-founder of Project Vermillion, a curatorial collective founded in 2019 that is centered on the intersection of art, architecture and the built environment.

In July 2019, Dr. Mónica Ramírez-Montagut was appointed director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University after having served as director at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University in New Orleans, since 2014. Under her tenure, Newcomb presented innovative projects and socially engaged exhibitions addressing mass incarceration and environmental justice such as "Per(Sister):Incarcerated Women of Louisiana," and "The American Dream Denied: The Residents of Gordon Plaza." At the MSU Broad, Dr. Ramírez-Montagut is leading interdisciplinary teams addressing food injustice/food sovereignty and climate change for the upcoming 2024 exhibitions "Nourishing Justice" and "Climate Change."

Dr. Ramírez-Montagut received her BA in Architecture from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and her MA and PhD in Architecture from Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelone, Spain.

Pamela Sherrod Anderson, founder of Graceworks Theater and Film Productions LLC, is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, playwright, educator and journalist. Her film projects have received funding from Independent Television (ITVS), the Illinois Humanities Council, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and Zonta International. They also garnered the support of individual investors. Additonally, her projects have been chosen for fiscal sponsorship by Chicago Filmmakers.

Her education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree from DePaul University and a Master of Arts degree in Journalism from Michigan State University. Pamela has completed professional fellowships at the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Multicultural Management Program and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She has served on the advisory board for Michigan State University’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences and on the Chicago Tribune/McCormick grant advisory committee.

Pamela is a proud product of Chicago’s South Side and is just as proud of her family’s Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi roots

Michael Darough graduated from the University of Memphis, earning an MFA in photography in 2011 and his BFA in photography from Arizona State University in 2007. His work explores the intersection of personal and cultural identity though tableau and portraiture. Darough received a Fulbright seminar grant addressing diversity in German education, which was hosted by the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is a nationally exhibiting artist whose work has recently been shown at the Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, TN and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO. He is a Silver Eye Fellowship 20 recipient and a 2020 finalist for the Arnold Newman Prize For New Directions in Photographic Portraiture. Currently, Darough is a practicing artist and educator working in St. Louis, MO.