
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 members—and 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