Nadia Nascimento

Founder, We the Roses

Nadia Nascimento is a global marketer, cultural innovator and experience designer whose work lies at the intersection of media, art and activism.

Her strategies in digital and experiential have focused on top-tier brands and impact-based ventures from (RED) to VIACOM, the BBC to the United Nations Foundations. Her background in tech, strategy, and culture has put her at the cutting edge of experience design, designing key moments at events like TED, Sundance and Summit Series. She is the Co-Founder of ARTNOIR, a creative organization offering an alternative to the traditional art world narrative promoting bold acts of creative storytelling for communities of opportunity + artists of colour.

Nadia serves on the board of directors for Camielle Brown Dancers, ArtSpeak Gallery, Amref Africa (the largest African-led health organization in the continent) and the advisory board of Ethos Lab, the first of its kind virtual STEM centered gathering place for teens of colour.

ARTNOIR (Co-Founder and Board Member) - a female-majority and Black + brown owned, NYC based global collective and 501(c)(3) with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.

The Camille Brown Dance Academy, a Bessie Award-winning, NYC-based dance company advancing the artistic vision of Camille A.Brown. Founded in ‘06, the company performs across the world, inviting audiences into stories and dialogues about race, culture, & identity.

ArtSpeak, located on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, First Nations in Vancouver, Canada, is a non-profit artist run centre established in 1986 actively contributing to cultural communities producing challenging, innovative work in diverse media.