Team

Founder, Business Development, and Strategy

Adefolakunmi (Fola) Adenugba is a graduate student in the Master of Arts - Art Business program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York. Fola is the founder of ISE-DA and leads business development and strategy. She completed her Bachelor of Business Administration with a double major in Art History at Emory University. At Emory, she received the Emory NAACP Presidential Image Award, the Goizueta Business School Campus Leadership Award and a Graduating Woman of Excellence Award. She was also inducted into the Class of 2017 100 Senior Honorary. Fola has previously worked as a management consultant and interned at art institutions such as the High Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. She is currently a 2020 Sokoloff Arts Creative Fellow.

Visual Design and Art Direction

George Kofi Prah is a graphic designer, illustrator and visual artist from Ghana, based in New York city. George leads visual design and art direction for ISE-DA. He is a designer at creative branding agency, Loyal Kaspar and also collaborates with friends on creative projects in his spare time. His design work has been featured in Graphis Magazine New Talent (2017) and the Indigo Design Awards (2018). His personal illustration work explores consciousness and the nuances of human connection, with each other and spirituality. Inspired by surrealism, sci-fi motives, psychology, everyday life and religion, his illustrations depict short vignettes into the worlds and minds of fascinating characters.

Social

Social Media Management

Adama Kamara is a recent graduate of Emory University and a storyteller of the Black experience. Adama leads social media management for ISE-DA. At Emory, she was editor-in-chief of BLACKSTAR*, Emory’s first and only Black student publication, and served as a research and curatorial assistant for The James Weldon Johnson Institute of Race and Difference. She was also inducted into the Class of 2020 100 Senior Honorary, received a Graduating Woman of Excellence Award, and was selected as the 2020 Class Orator. Previously, Adama served as a production assistant for the documentary film, “Home” (2020) by Warsan Shire, and “The Burning” (2020) by Dr. Isabella Alexander-Nathani. She is currently a Venture for America Fellow.

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