Maggie Villegas

Maggie Villegas (she / ella) is a Colombian-American creator, strategist, and organizer for a just creative economy in Baltimore. She combines her passion for connecting people, her creative energy, and her love of Baltimore to build platforms that invest in futures collectively led by artists, cultural workers, and creators. In 2017, she led the launch of the Baltimore Creatives Acceleration Network, a collaborative movement to prepare, resource, and inspire Baltimore creatives to own their genius, build mindful creative enterprises, and shape our future. In 2009, she co-founded emp collective, an artist-run arts incubator that was home to boundary breaking independent artists and curators of performance, music, dance, film, visual arts and experimental in-betweens in downtown Baltimore from 2011-2018. She has worked as a creative entrepreneur in the performing arts, as a leader of large-scale public arts programs and place-based initiatives including the Baltimore Mural Program, and maintains a personal practice as an artist and curator. She is a trustee of Baltimore’s chapter of the Awesome Foundation and Live Baltimore, serves as a mentor for Empowered Women International.