
Taneshia Nash Laird is a visionary cultural strategist, entrepreneur, and educator whose work centers on Black economic empowerment through ownership, creativity, and leadership. She serves as the executive director of Project REAP, the nation’s longest-running initiative to advance racial equity in commercial real estate, and is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, where she teaches entrepreneurship in Black creative expression.
A former turnaround CEO of the historic Newark Symphony Hall, Laird raised over $15 million and launched workforce development programs serving the city's predominantly Black and Latino residents. She also co-founded MIST Harlem, a multimillion-dollar entertainment venue that operated in New York City, showcasing Black and diasporic culture through film, food, and music. Her leadership across the arts, real estate, and policy has earned her gubernatorial appointments in two states, including to the New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zone Authority and the Massachusetts Cultural Policy Development Advisory Council.
She is the co-author of "Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans," and has been a featured speaker at Harvard University, Berklee College of Music, Princeton University, Kenyon College, and The College of New Jersey.
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