Nicholas Cohn
Nicholas Cohn is an independent curator, cultural organizer, and fundraiser for the arts, as well as the founder of Art and Social Activism and the director of the Art and Social Activism Festival. Over the past 15 years, he has worked for arts organizations including the Brooklyn Museum, Art in General, A Blade of Grass, and the arts advocacy organization Americans for the Arts. He was Director of Tyler Rollins Fine Art and William Holman Galleries, where he helped to place the work of emerging and under-recognized artists in prominent private and museum collections. He also worked with Art Miami, LLC on producing art fairs in New York and Miami.
NICOLE J. CARUTH
is an independent curator and writer. She works with contemporary artists in gallery contexts and public spaces, organizing exhibitions such as: The Grace Jones Project; Fallen Fruit: Power of People, Power of Place; Derrick Adams: Crossroad—A Social Sculpture; and more recently, Build Better Tables, a temporary public-art exhibition commissioned by the Nashville Office of Arts and Culture. Her writing has been published in ARTnews; C Magazine; Gastronomica; Hyperallergic; Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art; Public Art Review; and Vitamin Green, a Phaidon Press
PETER J. KIM
is the Founder and Executive Director of the Museum of Food and Drink (MoFaD), which brings the world of food to life with exhibits you can eat. Located in Brooklyn, NY, MoFaD is recognized as a global leader in experiential food education. Kim received his bachelor degree from Brown University, and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He holds Master's degrees from Sciences Po, the Sorbonne in Paris as well as a certificate from the French Culinary Institute. MoFaD has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, CBS, NBC, and The Wall Street Journal. His last meal would be fried chicken, white rice, a runny egg, and his mom’s cucumber kimchi. You can follow Peter on Instagram at @petermofad.
GAIL ALBERT HALABAN
is a New York based artist. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and Yale University, from which she received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography. Her work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group shows including a solo exhibit in 2018 at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. She is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery, NYC. Her third monograph was recently published by the Aperture Foundation in Spring 2019. She teaches in the Medical Humanities Department at Columbia University Medical School. Public and private collections including the Hermes Foundation, George Eastman Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, and Nelson Atkins Museum hold her work.
ELIZABETH GAVIN
is a Registered Nurse with a passion for Art, Holistic Health and Wellness. She is a native New Yorker who attended LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and Performing Arts, and earned her B.A from Antioch College in photo-journalism. Later, her work as a Doula lead her to a career in Nursing. Her experience in both hospital and community based nursing over the past 11 years includes working in the emergency room, oncology and maternal child health. She is a Childbirth Educator, Board Certified Holistic Nurse and Integrative Nurse Coach currently working at an all girls Independent School focusing on teaching about the menstrual cycle and facilitates classes on self care, nutrition, mindfulness and energetic anatomy for Girls K-12.
