Donna Walker-Kuhne is an award-winning thought leader, writer, and strategist for community engagement, audience development, and social justice. She is president of Walker International Communications Group, Inc., a 40-year-old boutique marketing and audience development consulting agency. She was formerly director of marketing for both the Public Theater and Dance Theatre of Harlem. She was also vice president of marketing and vice president of community engagement at New Jersey Performing Arts Center. She provides consulting services to numerous arts organizations throughout the world and has generated over $22m in earned income.

Former clients include WNYC Radio, the Louis Armstrong House, the Apollo Theater, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and New York City Opera. She was an associate producer for George C. Wolfe’s Harlem Song. She is co-founder of Impact Broadway, a socially and technology-driven audience development initiative serving 300 African American and Latino students throughout the five boroughs of New York City. These students participated in attending Broadway productions, social networking, seminars, and lectures.

Walker-Kuhne is a veteran of 22 Broadway productions providing multicultural marketing and group sales, including Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk; Stick Fly; Raisin in the Sun; August Wilson’s Radio Golf; and Once on this Island.

She is currently Senior Advisor, Social Impact at New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Currently her portfolio includes social justice initiatives and Equity Diversity Inclusion workshops. Her current clients include the Whitney Museum of Art,Harlem Week, Harlem Stage, and the Black Orchestral Network.

Walker-Kuhne has traveled to five continents, 11 countries, and 49 states sharing her expertise, skills, and experiences. She has presented keynote speeches for numerous national and international organizations, including Dance USA, Theatre Communications Group, LORT Theatre Conference, Broadway League, Opera America, League of American Orchestras, Grantmakers in the Arts, and the Wallace Foundation Convening Arts and Business Council. She has presented her strategies at Harvard University, Yale University, Brown University, Columbia University, American University, University of South Carolina, Temple University, Northwestern University, and the Canada Council for the Arts. She has completed lectures and workshops in Moscow, Russia; Australia; Bloemfontein, South Africa; and Edinburgh, Scotland. Walker-Kuhne conducts staff development diversity workshops for theater, dance, and arts administration programs.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2025 Ignites Artistic Freedom Award, 2024 A Planter of Seeds Award, 2022 Margot Adams Signature Award, 2021 SGI-USA Distinguished Pioneer Award, and the 2019 League of Professional Theatre Women Rachel Crothers Leadership Award.

She is an adjunct professor at New York University, Bank Street College, and Columbia University. She serves on several boards, including Mid-Atlantic Arts, Signature Theatre, Newark Arts Council, and the Harlem Arts Alliance. She is vice-chair of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Arts, Culture and Entertainment Committee. She is a member of The Society, Inc. Renaissance Chapter. Her first book, Invitation to the Party: Building Bridges to Arts, Culture and Community, was published in 2005 by Theatre Communications Group. Her second book, Champions for the Arts; Successful Strategies for Engaging Dynamic Communities, was published, October 21, 2025.

Tom Hall is the artistic director and co-head of Montclair Film in Montclair, NJ. Previously, Hall held the positions of executive director, Montclair Film (2015–2022); director, artistic director, and director of programming at the Sarasota Film Festival (2005–2014); and programming director at newportFILM in Newport, RI (2009–2011). In addition, Hall was programmer for the Nantucket Film Festival in Nantucket, MA (2002–2005) as well as a former director of new media for Bravo/The Independent Film Channel (1997–2000). He has also worked in the Industry and Guest Services Offices at the Hamptons International Film Festival (2002-2003). In January of 2010, Hall was named one of Spring Board Media’s 20 under 40 in Film. Hall has directed short films for Bob Mould's Carnival of Light and Sound Tour and was an inaugural member of the indieWIRE blogging community with his blog The Back Row Manifesto, which is now a standalone website. A graduate of the University of Michigan (’94), Hall resides in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and two sons.