Experienced, caring and strategic leader with over twenty years of experience in founding leadership roles, advising and educating artists/creatives, and leading complex organizations, consulting engagements and social impact initiatives in the arts + culture sector. I strive to make bold moves and build connections in the service of greater equity and social justice in our field and beyond. I am always interested in connecting with values driven colleagues and professionals across all sectors. BIOWilfredo is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural producer and consultant whose work focuses on producing for equity, narrative and social change. His work spans traditional disciplines and bridges focus areas including sexuality/gender, myth, politics, food and race. He is the Founder/CEO of Communitas Arts & Culture, LLC & Founder/Executive Producing Director of the Drag Arts Oral History Project. His 20+year career includes programmatic, consulting and executive leadership work with several notable organizations, including Disney Theatrical Productions, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Field and CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia. He received his M.A. in Producing & Directing Theatre from NYU and is a graduate of PISAB’s Undoing Racism for Community Organizers and the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office on LGBT Affairs’ Leadership Pipeline Program. He completed training in oral history practice at the UC Berkeley Advanced Institute on Oral History and holds a certificate in effective philanthropy from Stanford University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. This year, he was chosen as one of seven Americans included in the inaugural leaders cohort of the “Building LGBTQ+ Communities in Germany & the US” program by the American-German Institute/Johns Hopkins University; was named an inaugural Cultural Producer-in-Residence with the Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival (PHLAFF); was selected as one of 40 national leadership fellows to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Institute for Racial Healing cohort; and was recently named an UnMapping Fellow (Storytelling for Social Change) for the 2024-2025 academic year at The Writer’s Room-Drexel University.