carolyn “cc” concepcion is a multi-disciplinary creative entrepreneur, global marketer and innovation strategist. She has built a career visualizing dynamic futures, creating business growth driving partnerships and strategies, designing interactive experiences and developing culturally rich communities, products, platforms and content for top brands, celebrities, start-ups, cultural institutions, and social impact organizations. she has experience across a multitude of industries including music, tech, art, food, design, travel, cpg, spirits, sports, tv and film. cc has worked with Instagram, Google, YouTube Music, Airbnb, Nike, IKEA, Dropbox, Sonos, Saint Heron/ Solange Knowles, Spike Lee, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Ghetto Gastro, Heineken USA, PepsiCo and others. She is a New Museum IDEAS CITY Detroit Fellow, holds a Masters degree from NYU in design strategy, cultural innovation and storytelling and is one of the co-founders of ARTNOIR, a global arts collective and non-profit organization that catalyzes cultural equity across the arts and culture industries. @artnoirco is an organization supporting BIPOC artists and communities, encouraging arts access and providing connections, grants, and enrichment opportunities for artists and students alike through fundraisers, events, and partnerships with organizations including Artsy, Afropunk, Essence, Penguin Random House, Black Lives Matter, the School of Visual Arts and NYU. “ARTNOIR started as a group of friends organizing “field trips” to museums, galleries and art fairs around the globe. In it, we discovered the power of numbers, and friendship, to make traditionally exclusive art world spaces feel colorful, inclusive and welcoming. We also discovered a passion for ensuring that the next generation of Black and Brown creators, curators, and collectors are connected in community, and contributing to each other’s success. Today, ARTNOIR is a female-majority and minority owned, NYC based global collective and 501(c)(3) with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries. We seek to empower artists, enthusiasts, curators, forward thinking organizations, storytellers, designers and patrons, to explore alternative perspectives to the traditional arts narrative, while leveraging the intersectionality of art and culture to develop new access points for discussion, exploration and collaboration.”