STEPHANI ANDERSON | Vice President of Strategy and Innovation

Stephani has been with Momentum for over 13 years driving universal design principles and practices. She has worked directly with people to expand Momentum’s enhanced Creative Arts Platforms and community access. Comprehensive innovation and implementation are her focus, with the intention that each person supported by Momentum is empowered to work, live, and thrive with independence. Her super-power is inventing solutions.

Stephani also works as an artist and enjoys multimedia assemblage, ceramics, and drawing on wood.

ARAGNA KER | Curatorial and Adaptive Design Manager

A native of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Aragna Ker was born in 1974. He immigrated to Southern California, at the age of six. After graduating high school, Ker relocated to attend San Francisco Art Institute and graduated with a BFA in Painting in 1999. In 2004, he received his MFA in Sculpture at Claremont Graduate University. Essential experiences serve as springboard for Ker’s methodology. His playful works fuse cultural symbols and myth in order to explore a vast range of hybrid identities. His drawings and sculptures utilize the potency of motive to curiously attack simplistic materials. The United States Embassy in Cambodia, Hammer Museum, Pacific Asian Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Oceanside Museum, and the Los Angeles Zoo are amongst his list of exhibition sites.Aragna Ker is currently employed as the Curatorial and Adaptive Design Manager for Momentum Creative (formerly United Cerebral Palsy Los Angeles), specializing in developing inclusive tools and artistic programming to adults with disabilities.

MEGAN HENRY | Director of Training and Self-Determination

Megan has worked at Momentum for over 10 years developing training and resources that infuse allyship, respect, and dignity into the culture of Momentum and confirm Momentum’s commitment to “empowering potential through innovation”. She works closely with a consulting team of individuals from the disability community to develop meaningful resources and workshops for the organization and community and find ways to expand access to independence. Additionally, Megan works with various departments across Momentum to support individuals and families interested in using the Self- Determination program to access services.

JULIANNE HUANG

Julianne Huang is an inspired creative multimedia artist who continues to explore new materials and mediums and does many different forms of arts such as painting, 3d arts, photography, procreate digital, photoshop and stitchery/embroidery. A gifted artist who has many artistic creativity and talented art skills to create beautiful arts in all sorts of forms with technique, effects, with texture, dimensions and different strokes with color and buoyant bold, bright palettes in her natural images or subject matters that she often chooses to create. She masterfully creates works of increasing depth and dimension by adding texture that pushes the visual balance of the work forward—masterfully blurring the lines between realism, illustration, collage, and sculpture and 3D.

DEVIN SYNAGOGUE

Devin Synagogue creates detailed abstract drawings that immerse the viewer immediately. Synagogue’s process is automatic and driven by his natural movements and range of motion. He utilizes a customized grip tool and moves in short, quick motions to achieve the tapestry of marks across the page. Synagogue’s internal responses to his environment seem to be captured in his drawings; at times a collection of dense marks beginning to encroach on top of one another. In others, there is clear space and order in sparse compositions.

His lines are meticulous yet agitated, and when combined create vibrant fields of color. This effect is both stunning and bold. The overall look is one that’s contained and interactive, yet it compresses into single incidents of living color when the viewer takes a closer look at each line as a separate stroke.

JONNA WILKINS

Jonna Wilkins’s art espouses her concepts of beauty, hope, and freedom. Her vivid images of flowers, rainbows, and lush landscapes convey the hope and spirit that she brings to everyone she meets. Her love and respect of folklore inspires her to celebrate the potential found in the world and to act in gratitude. As she frames a shot or sketches the perspective for a landscape, she seems to be looking through a lens of discovery and appreciation, whether the subject is a tree she has passed every day on the way to the studio or a concept she has studied in a series of artworks

Wilkins works in many mediums, focusing most time and attention to the disciplines of painting and photography. She describes her work as autobiographical, choosing to paint and photograph the natural world around her because it is so close to her heart.

Wilkins seeks wellness and complex images to express the different mediums she utilizes. She contributes some of her love of art to her mother (also an artist), who recently passed on.