Jazmine Catasús is Artistic Director and one of the Master Printers of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW) at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA). She has been involved with EFA RBPMW since 2013. Catasús works with community members and the public within the printshop facilities and the archive. She has collaborated on printmaking projects with artists such as Lizanina Cruz, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Dindga McCannon. Catasús has led printmaking workshops at several institutions, including the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Norwalk, CT), Print Center New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. 

Shameekia Shantel Johnson is a writer, curator, and researcher of Afro-Caribbean ancestry from New York City. Working from the critical framework of social architecture, she considers the multidimensional relationship between people, politics, narrative, and environment. Currently, Johnson is perfecting her nomenclature, Red Notes, an ongoing body of work investigating Black people’s psycho-spiritual-affective relationship to the color red and its presence in social space.

Essye Klempner is Director of Programming and Partnerships at EFA and RBPMW. For nearly a decade, she has led their residency and educational programs, partnerships with colleges, museums, and institutions, and has activated their archive of over 10,000 prints through exhibitions and public programming. Most recently, Klempner initiated the Blackburn Oral History Project, funded by Hauser & Wirth Institute; an online educational platform for the project, supported by the Dedalus Foundation, is in development.

Deborah Cullen-Morales, PhD, is senior program officer for arts and culture at the Mellon Foundation. Previously, she served as executive director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts; director and chief curator of the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University; director of curatorial programs at El Museo del Barrio; and curator of the print collection at Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop. Her work has focused on modern and contemporary Latinx, Caribbean, and African American art.