Emma Osore

Emma Osore (she/her/hers) is a Brooklyn-based participatory designer, social entrepreneur, and commissioned mixed media artist. With an interest in people-centered systems change, she uses co-design to help anti-disciplinary creatives transform culture. She was the Director of Community at the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s creative business incubator, NEW INC - resulting in its first majority-BIPOC membership, launched and led Americans for the Arts' half million dollar investment in BIPOC arts advocates. She also co-founded BlackSpace where she is now its first Co-Managing Director - building love into its operational leadership and centering the Black experience in neighborhood projects and national urbanist communities.