Founder and Board Chair
Executive Director
Asad Ali Jafri has over two decades of experience honing an intentional and holistic practice as an arts leader, cultural organizer, producer, and artist. Using a grassroots approach and global perspective, Asad connects artists, communities, and resources across imagined boundaries to create meaningful relationships and sustainable initiatives.
Before joining Kaleidoscope Dreams, Asad was the inaugural Executive Director at the South Asia Institute in Chicago, where he helped establish the institute’s strategy, programs, and exhibitions. Asad has held leadership positions at the Shangri La Museum in Honolulu, where he reimagined public programming and artist residencies, and Words Beats & Life in Washington DC, where he directed an annual festival and built a new fellowship program.
Asad is a co-founder of SpaceShift Collective, a collaborative of artists experimenting with the ways in which we work, live, and create. As a DJ, Asad co-produces Listening While Muslim, a dynamic listening party at the intersection of culture, identity, faith, and politics.
Program Director
Morganne Evans (she/her) is an administrator, artist, and community-engaged facilitator dedicated to nourishing human connection and enhancing access and engagement within the arts.
Morganne has worked at performing arts organizations across New York City, where she has developed and administered programs that center around community engagement, career development, and arts education. In her most recent position at The Public Theater, Morganne led the expansion of The Public’s Fellowship programs in partnership with the City University of New York and the Miranda Family Fund. As a board member for the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, she co-chairs the annual Leaders of Color Institute that takes place in New York.
She holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (concentrations in Theater, Sociology, and Humanities) from the University of Central Florida, as well as an MA in Educational Theatre from New York University. Currently, she is a Doctoral Candidate in the Educational Theatre for Colleges and Communities program at NYU Steinhardt.
Communications Director
Rosemarie Cruz is a strategic communications professional and visual designer with nearly two decades of experience amplifying the voices and missions of nonprofits, cultural institutions, and social service organizations. Her work sits at the intersection of storytelling, culture, and community, and is grounded in a genuine commitment to the people and places she serves.
Throughout her career, Rosemarie has built brands from the ground up and led Comms at organizations across the arts, corporate, and education sectors, including Figure Skating in Harlem, School in the Square, and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, where she helped produce the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. Earlier in her career, she directed strategic communications for Congreso de Latinos Unidos and produced large-scale cultural events including Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican Parade and Latino Arts & Cultural Festival for several years.
A proud New Yorker, Spanish speaker, and artist, Rosemarie holds a BA in Communication from Villanova University. She is deeply invested in the vitality of NYC’s arts community and brings cultural fluency and creative vision to her work at KDF.
CEO
AK Worldwide
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TDF
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Entertainment Community Fund
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CKF Collective
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Recursion
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AK Worldwide
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Harriet Tubman Effect
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