We’re excited to announce our final event for our 2024/2025 Cross-Exposure Series: Arts Administration & Education in a Broader Social and Political Context! Join us on January 16, 2025 at 1:00pm EST with DeMarcus Akeem Suggs, Director of Creative & Cultural Economy for the City of Memphis.

This event is FREE for AAAE Members and $6 for non-members.

DeMarcus Akeem Suggs is a dance artist, arts administrator, and culturist now serving as Director of Creative and Cultural Economy for the City of Memphis. Fueled by a passion to cultivate and sustain a more vibrant, equitable, artist-led, and community-centric arts sector, DeMarcus is the Founder and Framework Culturist for Kuumbuntu, LLC, and has held positions at Mid-America Arts Alliance, Alternate ROOTS, The National Center of Choreography at the University of Akron (NCCAkron), Victoria Theatre Association (now Dayton Live), and Neos Dance Theatre. Suggs is an alumnus of Belhaven University, the University of Akron, The Equity Alliance, and is a former Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow. He proudly serves on the MediaJustice and NCCAkron boards.