Taylor Nickens, President
Taylor Nickens is a Philly native event curator, social entrepreneur, photographer, and holistic healer. Simply put, Taylor makes things happen. She is a powerhouse of energy, enthusiasm and valor, capped off with an infectious smile. She has experience producing events and programs for Footlocker, Adidas, REC Philly, and several corporate and nonprofit partners throughout Philadelphia and the Tri-state region. Various industry leaders have been her clients including: DJ Jazzy Jeff, Bri Steeves, Kur, Christian Crosby, Chill Moody, Paris Nicole, and many more. She is the founder of Taylor Nickens Events, Rise and Ritual, and Sacred Intentional Sisterhood.
Jaq Masters, Vice President
Jaq Masters (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, cooperative organizer, and housing justice advocate based in Philadelphia. As a board member of the Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance (PACA), they bring over 15 years of experience in systems development and grassroots organizing, particularly through their work with Black Visioning Group, where they’ve coordinated mutual aid and secured housing for Black queer and trans community members. Jaq is also a coordinator with Guilded, a freelancer cooperative supporting artists with benefits, contract support, and stable income. Their visual practice—spanning painting, printmaking, and tattooing—centers Black queer and trans lives through ritual, rest, and ancestral storytelling. Across all their work, Jaq builds systems of care that prioritize collective power, cultural memory, and economic solidarity.
Ana Martina, Secretary
Ana Martina (she/her) is a chilenga community organizer and facilitator who is a founding worker-owner member of Colmenar Cooperative Consulting. Committed to principles and practice of Solidarity Economy, her organizing and early work a couple decades ago was linked to the Indymedia movement in Mexico. She documented and actively supported the Zapatista movement in solidarity with other indigenous and grassroots organizing including documentation of Free Trade Agreement’s environmental impacts and displacement of communities in Mexico and Central America. In the U.S. she served as the Technical Director of the Prometheus Radio Project in the United States, providing technical assistance to dozens of organizations to obtain FM low-power transmission licenses around the country including WPPM PhillyCAM Radio.
Tara Taylor, Treasurer
Tara (they/them/we/us) is a dedicated mutual aid organizer in Philadelphia. They have been a key organizer with the Workers Revolutionary Collective since 2020. As a homeless mutual aid organizer, they have deep experience with mutual, strengthening community relationships, sourcing and coordinating resources, and laboring collectively with organizers of different backgrounds and capacities. For years they have been affirming people the dignity and respect they deserve outside of profit motivated systems that do not value their well-being. Newly elected to the board, they seek to be an ambassador between PACA and the community at large, further giving us direction in our programming. They are currently one of the key organizers and leaders with the Workers Revolutionary Collective, and the head of Mastress LLC.
Daniel Park, Board Member
Daniel Park is a queer, bi-racial, theatre and performance artist, movement facilitator, and organizer for racial and labor justice in the cultural sector. Through all of the above, his work brings people together to understand and experiment with their individual and mutual roles in bringing about the liberation of all people. Since moving to Philadelphia in 2014, Daniel has become a leader for radical thought in the local creative ecosystem and a trusted national source for guidance on the intersection between cooperatives and the arts. Daniel has self-produced multiple major works, co-founded the worker cooperative Obvious Agency (www.obvious-agency.com), created commissions for institutions such as the Barnes Foundation and Moore College of Art and Design, and taught anti-oppressive creation methodology at the University of the Arts. He was the recipient of a 2024 NTP grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts and a 2022 Art Works Grant from the Philadelphia Foundation and Forman Arts Initiative. Daniel has provided his services as a facilitator and consultant nationally with organizations such as Creatives Rebuild New York, The PA Governor’s Commission on Asian American Affairs, ArtPlace America, and many others. Daniel was also instrumental as an organizer and recruiter for Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists, a community group that brings together folks of pan-Asian descent involved in the performing arts.
And of course, we hold deep gratitude for all of our past board members, who have helped steward our organization over the years:
Maddie Taterka
Charlyn Griffith-Oro
Divya Desai
Loushun McCrea
Nancy Nguyen
Annette Griffin
Abdul-Aliy Muhammed
Amanda Green Hull
Chris Hill
Clark Arrington
Damali Rhett
Esteban Kelly
Felicia Bender
Frank Ortiz
Greg Holt
Jamila Medley
Jasmine Hamilton
John Wieme
Krystal Eason
Lauren Troop
Margaret Lenzi
Mo Manklang
Morgan Pitts
Shaline Webb
Susan Kavchok
Teresa Mansell
Terrence Toppings-Brown
Tim Palmer
Will Crosswell
Brad Forbes
Christina Gosnell
Mathias Duncan Griffith-Bixler
Komal Vaidya