Chenoa Baker (she/her) is a curator, writer, professor, and descendant of self-emancipators—an overall community art synergist. She worked on Simone Leigh and Simone Leigh: Sovereignty with ICA/Boston, Gio Swaby: Fresh Up at PEM, Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas at MFA/Boston, led several exhibitions at ShowUp, and curated Sensory Garden at New Art Center, and Marie B. Gauthiez: We Dwell in Between at Tephra ICA in Reston, VA. In recognition of her curatorial work, she received the WBUR Maker Award which featured her on NPR’s All Things Considered in 2024. In 2023, she won the AICA Young Art Critics Prize. She edits with Sixty Inches From Center and Pigment Magazine and writes for Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Public Parking, Material Intelligence, and Studio Potter, to name a few. Ultimately, as a conduit to that power, she returns to a community she’s cultivated: Elbow Grease, an editorial advocacy group for women and nonbinary labor in the arts.