Sharon Louden wears many interchangeable hats: artist, educator, advocate, consultant, community builder, founder and director of the Institute for Sustained Creativity, and editor of the “Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” series of books. As a changemaker, Louden amplifies unheard voices and advances meaningful opportunities for artists across all disciplines toward sustaining their creative lives. As an artist, her work has evolved from using writing as a medium, to figuration then abstraction through her paintings and drawings, to creating many physical environments that involve an inclusive advocacy using a varied range of media.

Hannah Cole is a tax expert who specializes in working with self-employed people — artists, designers, therapists, wellness practitioners, consultants, and anyone running a mission-driven business on their own. Though she’s worked at a couple “buttoned-up” tax firms in New York, she loves bringing her tax skills to people doing work that matters. A long-time working artist with a high-level exhibition history, and a design nerd who worked in an NYC interactive design agency, the financial challenges of self-employed people are both relevant and personal to Hannah.

Respected journalist, influential Instagrammer, and the former longtime editor of ARTnews, Robin Cembalest has built a specialty in professional training for the digital era. She teaches writing, social media, public speaking, and other essential skills across the art industry. Cembalest works as educator, consultant, coach, and mentor, helping institutions and individuals to communicate effectively and sharing her expertise on the changing shape of art media.