WILNA JULMISTE TAYLOR Assistant Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy Visiting Artist, Department of Theatre wilna.j.taylor@vanderbilt.edu Wilna Julmiste Taylor is an actor, writer, producer and art administrator. She is an alumna of the Negro Ensemble Company in New York. She also studied acting at Rutgers University, The Wilma Theater and the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Rutgers University, a Master of Science in Arts Administration from Drexel University and a Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University. She is a MOSAIC Change Maker Fellow, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and the Leeway Foundation Art & Change grant. She is an award-winning film maker, her work has been produced national, international and presented as official selections at several festivals. Wilna’s work has also been published in the 25th anniversary volume of the Caribbean Writer where the editor stated that her writing “resonated “and she was noted as an “emerging Haitian-American voice”. Ms. Taylor oversees all aspects of the Curb Scholars Program in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership, which provides selected undergraduate students with year-long programming designed to support creative practice and to foster broad creative competencies through the integration of socially engaged art, innovation and public engagement on campus and beyond. She also leads the Creative Campus Initiative, which provides resources to faculty, students, staff and members of the Nashville community to engage in creative experiences and collaborations. This includes bringing artists, entrepreneurs, and emerging creatives on campus, supporting arts and cultural centered projects through the center’s Creative Catalyst awards, and co-directing the Racial Equity and Arts Leadership (REAL) program with Metro Arts.