Acknowledged as the nation’s foremost expert in Audience Development by the Arts & Business Council, Ms. Walker-Kuhne has devoted her professional career to increasing access to the arts. She was formerly Director of Marketing and Audience Development for The Public Theater and Director of Marketing for Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Presently, she is President of Walker International Communications Group, a boutique marketing, press and audience development consulting agency. She provides consulting services to numerous arts organizations throughout the country and just completed her second lecture tour to Australia in June 2007. She was recently invited to lecture at the University of Berlin, Germany on the topic of audience development.
Her clients include Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Cherry Lane Theater, Theater for a New Audience, Montclair Art Museum, Caribbean Cultural Center, Dance USA, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Gabrielle Lansner Dance Company, New York City Opera, The Ossie Davis Endowment Campaign, August Wilson’s Radio Golf, Three Mo’ Tenors and THURGOOD. She was recently selected as one of the 2008 25 Most Influential Black Women from The Network Journal. She is an adjunct professor at New York University, Columbia University and Brooklyn College. She is a board member of The Theater at Riverside Church, New Federal Theater, Brooklyn Arts Council and International Theater and Literacy Project. www.walkercommunicationsgroup.com.