About
Executive
Producer
At the height of the pandemic, when the Black Lives Matter movement illuminated the racial and health disparities across the country, Evans championed a call to action when she spearheaded the commission and public art exhibition of the Black Lives Matter Harlem Street Mural, featured globally in media publications and art institutions including the New York Times, Architectural Digest, The Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum’s ‘Designing Peace’ exhibition.
As an Executive Producer of tv, film, and experiential programming, Nikoa continues to support projects that celebrate the cultural legacies and experiences of diverse communities including the Harlem Cultural Festival inspired by the Oscar and Grammy Award-winning documentary Summer of Soul; and New York International Award-winning live documentary short film, An American Street Mural in Harlem.
Inspired by the Oscar and Grammy Award-winning documentary Summer of Soul, Co-Founders Nikoa Evans and Musa Jackson have reimagined the historic festival of 1969. In Nikoa’s role as a Co-Founder, Strategy & Business Development, she leads the Harlem Cultural Festival’s strategy to identify impactful business development opportunities that drive social and economic results.
An American Street Mural In Harlem
This award winning live-documentary short film is a love letter that examines how the hope, resilience, and pride of the Harlem community launched America’s pre-imminent Black Lives Matter mural in the midst of a global pandemic.