Daisy Desrosiers is an interdisciplinary art historian and the current director and chief curator of The Gund at Kenyon College. She was previously the inaugural director of artist programs at the Lunder Institute for American Art at the Colby Museum of Art at Colby College (Maine). Past exhibitions include Theaster Gates, The Black Image Corporation at Gropius Bau (Berlin, Germany), Sympathy For the Translator presented at the ICA (MECA) (Maine, USA), No Justice Without Love, at the Ford Foundation Gallery (NYC, USA) developed in dialogue with the Art for Justice community of artists and advocates, and most recently: Christine Sun Kim, Oh Me Oh My and Ming Smith, Jazz Requiem – Notations in Blue at The Gund. She was one of the co-curator of the first Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto Triennale titled GTA21 in 2021. Desrosiers was also part of the 2023 Center for Curatorial Leadership cohort. Past fellowships include Nicholas Fox Weber curatorial fellow with the Glucksman Museum in Cork (Ireland) and a curatorial fellow at Brooklyn-based nonprofit, Art in General. She is a contributor to the 2024 Prospect 6 New Orleans catalog writing on artist Joan Jonas, the 2021 New Museum Triennial publication and As We Rise (Aperture, 2021). She sits on the Board of Directors at the Art Gallery of the University College Cork, (Cork, Ireland) as well as the Program Advisory Council for Fogo Island Arts.

Rose Lord is a Managing Partner at Marian Goodman Gallery. Based in New York, Paris and Los Angeles, the Gallery champions the work of artists who stand among the most influential of our time and provides an international platform for its artists to showcase and sell their work, foster vital dialogues with new audiences, and advance their practices within nonprofit and institutional realms. She specializes in strategic sales and exhibitions, with a particular emphasis on contemporary artists working in film and video. Her expertise entails cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with museums in the US, Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand, as well as with private collections globally. She was part of the team that helped realize a new initiative in honor of the late Okwui Enwezor supporting Independent Curators International’s professional development program for emerging curators of African descent. She is also a board member of the NYC non-profit Participant Inc, an educational corporation and not-for-profit art space engaging communities through in-depth artist collaborations, exhibitions, performances, and estates work.