Programs

María Fernanda’s care and stewardship of this production was truly masterful.

— Executive Client at the Park Avenue Armory

María Fernanda specializes as a creative producer for the performing arts, producing venue-wide live productions (3k+ attendees), commissioning new work, developing residencies for both individuals and groups (70+), and extensive artist contract management.

María Fernanda’s Producer credits include: Assistant Producer, Soundtrack of America (Quincy Jones, Maureen Mahon, Jon Batiste, Steve McQueen); Producer, Jacqueline and Jason’s Block Party! (Jacqueline Woodson), Production Asst., Misc (André 3000; Common; Black Thought); Producer, Salon: Captcha: Dancing, Data, Liberation (Rashaad Newsome, Saidiya V. Hartman, Tavia Nyong’o, Kiyan Williams, Aimee Meredith Cox, Ruha Benjamin); & more.

The Nikki Giovanni tribute this Sunday blew me away. The people brought together—as featured guests and audience membersand the poems themselves...I am still riding on the joy of it all! We need spaces like that in these times, so thank you for doing such important cultural work.

— Attendee of María Fernanda’s honoring nikki series

independent programming

honoring nikki in the district of columbia 

January 4, 2025 — Present

a poetry garden

May 2025 — July 2025

April 16, 2024 — August 2024

let’s write poetry saturdays

February 1 2025 — Present

January 14, 2024 — December 7, 2024

programs for youth

February 2025  — Present

July 30, 2024 - December 9, 2024

July 2023

clear water series

August 2020 — July 2021

living in my skin conference

August 2016 — February 2018

Politics & Prose. Left to Right: María Fernanda, Nina Angela Mercer, Tricia Elam Walker, Holly Bass