DeeArah Wright | Board Co-Chair
DeeArah is an artist, mama, mover, and facilitator of adventurous learning and collaborative greatness. DeeArah’s lifeways and workflow are informed by her deep curiosity and passion for experimentation, listening, and responsive, transformative work.
DeeArah has partnered with organizations and projects like, The Field, The Laundromat Project, Urban Bush Women, Rites of Passage Project, and Naturally-Occurring Cultural Districts of New York, to support artists’ development and community-engagement initiatives. DeeArah served as Community Liaison and OJBK Community Dialogue Host for Creative Time’s and Weeksville Heritage Center’s funkgodjazz&medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn. She was the Founder and Director of Gather Brooklyn, Co-Director of JACK, and Director of Education of Brooklyn Children's Museum. She was also a Co-Founder and Worker-Owner of Mumbet’s Freedom Farm.
DeeArah is a Community Fellow of the Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence at The New School, and she continues to partner with kindred organizations in New York City, the Hudson Valley, and beyond through advisory, consulting, and facilitation. DeeArah is invested in moving forward learning and cooperative action around land and food sovereignty, Home and housing for all, radical education, and solidarity economy. She is moved by everyday magic, creative expression, play, and love in all of its forms.