About Us

Heather Alexa Woodfield is an executive leader, creative strategist, and transdisciplinary artist.  She is committed to fostering artistic and administrative collaborations across the creative, cultural, and civic sectors.

Heather was the Executive Director of One Percent for Culture from 2011 to 2017 where she built cross-sector coalitions and spearheaded advocacy efforts that led to the first increase in NYC expense funding for culture in a decade.  She served as the Director of Operations at Technology at 4A Arts where she oversaw development of a national web platform designed to showcase all disciplines of arts and culture.  She also founded My Vote Will Count and Democracy for NYC which focused on increasing civic and political engagement.  

Heather is a practicing transdisciplinary artist whose work fuses performance, film, dramatic writing, costume, design, and social practice art.  She is a Founding Artist of the collective, Calling All Parties, and has created and produced art experiences at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Chashama, High Line, and FIGMENT festivals in NYC, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Toronto.  Heather has also researched and written about nightlife as a socially engaged art practice.

Heather holds an MPA from Columbia University, an MA in Transdisciplinary Art, Culture, and Practice from NYU, a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, and a Millinery Certificate from FIT.  Her media Appearances include Crain’s New York Business, The Daily Show, NY1, the New York Times, and WNYC.

Beth (They/She) is an archivist and writer, who particularly enjoys processing collections and digital preservation work. They hold an MS in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute and BA in Government from Grand Canyon University. Their love for archiving and information science is rooted in their passion for equitable access and preservation rooted in community. Beth has years of experience through their previous fellowship and continued volunteer work at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, processing archives and improving digital preservation and access for audio visual resources. Beth has a passion for storytelling and is conscious of their contribution to the record of history through archival work, and how that can be in solidarity with movements across the globe. The mission and values of Aubin Pictures deeply resonate with their own passion for preserving the lives of those who have been pushed to the margins, and they are excited to facilitate storytelling through archival work, in collaboration with the team at Aubin Pictures. In their free time you can find Beth researching obscure parts of New York History, creating through fiber arts, or cultivating plant life and spending time with their dog in their apartment.

Jetta Strayhorn is a screenwriter and filmmaker from Atlanta, GA. They graduated from Harvard University in 2025, with a degree in English and Film Production, where they wrote the feature-length screenplay, Night Out. Their work typically focuses on Afrosurrealism, Afrofuturism, and experimental cinema, looking to explore the realms of race, gender, and sexuality outside the confines of the physical world.