Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas

2022-2023 Towards 2040 Creative Leaders Fellow

A fly girl Chicagoan by way of South Carolina, Jaquanda is one of the three founders and a co-creative lead for the arts education organization Kuumba Lynx (KL). Kuumba Lynx has been engaging youth and their families in hip- hop arts activism and culturally relevant programming for 25 years.

Jaquanda get’s FREE as an arts educator, mentor, yoga instructor, shamanic reiki healer, performance artist, arts administrator, International Peace Movement Honorary Ambassador, and hip-hop theater director.

As a healer Jaquanda is dedicated to holding space for the community to address harm, break generational curses and interrupt systematic sabotage by re-engaging in indigenous and African healing practices. She continues to grow the work of Kuumba Lynx by leaning in BIPOC sovereign roots and aligning artistic and community-work practices to the healing and sustainability of our community.