Janera Solomon is the executive director of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, a multi-arts center in Pittsburgh, PA. An experienced curator, Ms. Solomon has worked with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and developed the “First Voice International Black Performing Arts Festival” produced by the August Wilson Center for African American Culture in 2007. She has worked on a range of cultural projects including content development and programming for Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, project management for the August Wilson Center, branding at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and most recently, program planning for the National Museum for African American History and Culture currently under development in Washington D.C.