Sharbreon Plummer, Ph.D. is strategist, researcher, educator and artist with over thirteen years of nonprofit management experience, with an emphasis on the arts. Her practice has involved cultivating resources and programs for communities of creators across the South whose work advances freedom, liberation and social change.

Dr. Plummer has facilitated and presented work at institutions such as Project Row Houses, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Rhode Island School of Design, Americans for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Archive, and several others. A few of her creative projects include her internationally distributed zine Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles (2022) and curatorial projects such as Stitching Abolition (Chicago, 2022) and Mirrored Migration (New York, 2017). She has also been featured as an artist-in-residence at Rogers Art Loft (Las Vegas, NV) and Arquetopia (Oaxaca, MX).

She applies the intersection of her management and creative experience as leader of AYA Thought Studio—a creative consulting firm that empowers organizations and individuals to turn their ideas, visions, and values into reality.

Dr. Plummer earned a Ph.D. in Arts Administration, Education and Policy from The Ohio State University.