Aminisha Ferdinand, Director of The Facilitated Practice, is a New Orleans-based artist educator dedicated to creating engaging and collaborative learning spaces for youth and adults.

With nearly two decades of experience in curriculum design and student-centered education, Aminisha designs learning experiences on the foundational values of collaboration, creative exploration, self-reflection and joy.  During facilitation, she observes power dynamics to ensure insidious systems of patriarchy and white supremacy do not privilege historically-centered voices over others. She studied Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro and uses the games to build awareness of how participants navigate their relationship to power and each other.

Before entering the field of arts education, Aminisha performed in theater and film in New York, Los Angeles and New Orleans. In this current leg of her artist journey, she enjoys moving with others in the dance studio, and cultivating foods and flowers in the garden.