Joshua Rashaad McFadden

Featured Leader: Joshua Rashaad McFadden

Visual Artist and Assistant Professor of Photography at RIT

Photographer: Arturo Hoyte

Arturo David Hoyte is a photographer from Rochester, New York with over 15 years of emotion capturing experience. He specializes in portrait, and fashion photography where he helps people showcase the best sides of themselves, or their brands. 

He is currently using his talents to help brands strategize to grow their businesses.

Essayist: Francesca Padilla

Francesca Padilla is a queer Dominican-American fiction writer born and raised in New York City and living in Rochester, NY. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in creative writing from the State University of New York at Purchase College and is a past recipient of a Walter Dean Myers Grant from We Need Diverse Books. Her debut novel What’s Coming to Me (Soho Teen, 2022) has been recognized as a Junior Library Guild selection and a Best Teen/YA Book of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal.