Connector. Innovator. Facilitator. Strategist.
Tiffany is a leader at the intersection of culture and community who is dedicated to driving systemic change in the arts and cultural space.
Amplifying Artists
As an arts innovator, Tiffany has had the opportunity to work collaboratively with a wide range of musical artists such as grammy award winning concert pianist Michelle Cann, jazz pianist/composer William Menefield, drummer/composer and activist Mark Lomax II, Grammy and Emmy award-winning bassist Endea Owens, conductor Antoine T. Clark and gospel legend Donald Lawrence.
Creating Cultural Change
Prior to launching her own business, Tiffany served as the Director of Community Engagement and Diversity for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO), one of the nation’s oldest orchestras. At the CSO, she was instrumental in expanding the organization’s reach through strategic initiatives that connected the orchestra with the Greater Cincinnati community through collaborative programming with community organizations and leaders, neighborhood councils and other arts and cultural leaders. Through her leadership she helped the CSO more than double attendance of Black and Latino/e audience members at events through programs such as the CSO Brady Block Parties Series, the MAC Music Innovator Program and Classical Roots.
Cultivating Community Partnerships
As a community engagement strategist, Tiffany has had the opportunity to partner with notable community leaders and organizations such as Cincinnati Opera, The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Elementz Hip Hop Cultural and Arts Center, The Urban League of Greater Cincinnati, Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati Museum Center, Taft Museum of Art, Chamber Music Cincinnati, Cincinnati Men’s Chorus and others.
With over two decades of community engagement experience, Tiffany has worked with a wide range of constituents from business and civic leaders, community organizers, non-profit professionals as well as social justice advocates. Prior to her work in the arts, Tiffany served as the Associate Director of Graduate Recruitment at Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati and Program Specialist for Girl Scouts of Western Ohio.
Tiffany currently serves as chair of the board for Elementz Hip Hop Cultural Arts Center and is a former board member for the Over-the-Rhine Museum.
Honors & Recognitions
In 2022, Tiffany was named one of Cincinnati’s Notables in Arts and Culture by Movers and Makers Magazine.
Tiffany was awarded the Bayard Rustin Award for Striving to Establish the Beloved Community in 2013 by the Black Church Studies Department at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, where Tiffany earned her Master of Divinity degree.
“When people ask me where my passion for community engagement comes from I always start with my story. I share that my love for community began early in my teen years when instead of going to parties or playing sports, I chose to spend my time organizing toy or food drives and volunteering to pass out food at a local shelter. I also share that my idea of community began with my lineage. The maternal granddaughter of working class people who migrated from the South and took on jobs as janitors and domestic workers for affluent families to get by. People who taught me through their example that we are not limited by society’s definition of us. That our worth and dignity transcend social and economic barriers. I learned watching them that our worth exists in who we are and our power can be found in our shared humanity. That’s why I believe in the power of community. I want to help people recognize the beauty and richness of the community around them.”
“never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”
— John Lewis
