About Us
The Staff
Alorie Clark
Executive Director
Alorie Clark serves as Executive Director at the DC Collaborative. This role continues her long-standing career of contributing to the arts and humanities sector, after working for organizations such as the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Step Afrika!, National Arts Strategies, and Washington National Opera. Alorie is extremely passionate about authentically engaging communities and inspiring the next generation of leaders. She has volunteered for organizations such as Critical Exposure, Arts Administrators of Color Network, and DreamWakers. Alorie earned a bachelor’s in theatre arts administration from Howard University and a master’s in arts management from American University.
Ashlee McKinnon
Director of Education Development and Partnerships
Ashlee McKinnon serves as the Director of Education Development and Partnerships at the DC Collaborative. Ashlee has always connected her passion for arts enrichment and education with the school system, serving as a K-12 Dance Educator and Teaching Artist in the DMV for 10 years, and working with prominent arts organizations such as Dance Place, Story Tapestries, and Imagination Stage, as a champion for equitable youth development and enriching arts programming. Ashlee is an alumnus of the University of Maryland at College Park and Princeton Theological Seminary. Her membership in the Arts Administrators of Color Network and as an ambassador with Arts Education in Maryland Schools shape her perspective on equitable and diverse arts and humanities programming for our future generations. In addition to her professional work, Ashlee is still a performer at heart and continues to hone her craft with BREathe Dance Project and AftaShock DC. She has been blessed to dance on the stages of and create artistic works for Bowie State University, Sitar Arts Center, The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage in 2020 and a feature on CBS This Morning in 2017.
Elizabeth Winkelhoff
Data and Evaluation Manager
Elizabeth Winkelhoff is the Data and Evaluation Manager at the DC Collaborative. Originally from New York, she grew up going to museums and theater performances and has been passionate about equitable access in arts education ever since. Elizabeth graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2018 with a degree in Archaeology, participating in multiple research studies with a focus in bioarchaeological analysis. Previously, she has worked at Port Discovery Children’s Museum, the Maryland Science Center, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and taught abroad. She advocates for arts and humanities education and strives to apply her skills in data synthesis to support community building and education outreach. Outside of Elizabeth’s work at the DC Collaborative, she is a bookbinder and textile artist with a particular love for embroidery.
Aurianna Nacua
Education Programs Assistant
Aurianna Nacua is the Education Programs Assistant at the DC Collaborative. Based in Virginia, she graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a B.S. in Anthropology and a minor in Statistics in 2024. During her time in undergrad, she was involved in the TRIO Student Support Services Program and the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, which provided students from underrepresented backgrounds with academic and social opportunities that otherwise would be out of reach. Aurianna is committed to serving these communities through equitable access to education, specifically in the social sciences and humanities. She also works as a Gallery Educator at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. In her free time, Aurianna enjoys cooking and baking, junk journaling, and learning as many hobbies as she can.
Shelby Hubbard
Engagement Manager
Beginning in journalism, Shelby has experience in creating contemporary and traditional media. Shelby is an award-winning writer for her community-centered art reporting. This communication extends far beyond paper and screens to grassroots organizing and program coordination. She is also an art educator.
Their career has been rooted in the transformational power of experiencing art, both as a creator and viewer. Shelby believes in telling stories that embrace nuance, radical empathy, and curiosity. She received her undergraduate degree in Writing and Communication at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. She graduated with her MFA in Studio Art at Florida State University in the Spring of 2022.
The Board
LaMar Bagley – President
The SEED School of Washington, DC
Sharnise Anderson – Treasurer
Monumental Sports
Talia Dubovi – Secretary
Change Management Leader
Joi Alexander
First Batch Hospitality
Zikora Akanegbu
National Gallery of Art
Angela Jones
Youth Guidance
Rhoan C. Boucher
CARDINAL POINT TECHNICAL SERVICES, LLC
Adriana Crawford Gordon
Covington & Burling
Nina Ligon
Eaton DC
Joe Murchison
International Association of Blacks in Dance
Justin Rhodes
PBS News Student Reporting Labs
Ex-Officio Members:
Alorie Clark
DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative