Board of Directors

Oana Avasilichioaei’s art practice interweaves various areas, including poetry, translation, photographic and moving image, sound, and performance. She often explores various means of translating between these areas, bringing aspects of one area into another as a way of putting pressure on the very meaning, conventions, structures, and genres of these fields. Oana also works as a commercial translator from French to English, and has provided manuscript consultation services for the last several years. https://www.oanalab.com/

Raquel Cruz Crespo is an art historian with over eight years of experience as a cultural worker in both Cuba and Québec. She has developed a practice as an independent curator and specializes in visual arts and cultural mediation, with a strong commitment to decolonial practices. In Cuba, she worked in both non-traditional contexts and institutional settings, notably as a co-organizer of the collateral art program of the 12th Havana Biennial. In Montréal, she has carried out scientific and cultural research, coordinated programming at DARE-DARE, and later worked within the network of Maisons de la culture, where she currently holds the position of Cultural Development Officer for the borough of Montréal-Nord. Through her various roles, she is interested in building cultural ecosystems that support both artistic production and civic participation. 

Angela Marsh is a Canadian visual artist, a mother, an activist and a creator of community projects. She is interested in the vertiginous complexities of nature and in dethroning the culture-nature binary, her ecological and relational artistic projects being the residue of a continual seeking of intimate reciprocity and learning with the natural world. She holds an MA in Visual Arts from Université Laval (2019), an MA in Education (2004) and a BA in Art History and Environment and Society (2000) from University of Toronto.

Gianni Mastro is Regional Director of Real Estate for TFI International. He has over 8 years of experience covering all facets of the real estate industry. With a commercial and residential real estate brokerage license, he has worked for many large corporations such as Cushman & Wakefield, Canderel, Air Canada and now TFI International. He has lead development, acquisition, and leasing projects throughout all of Canada and the US.

His interest in the arts as a collector motivates him to contribute to OBORO as treasurer and on the capital committee. He values honesty, integrity and flexibility and hopes to bring all these qualities and more to OBORO.

Fortunat Nadima Nadima is a lawyer practising in intellectual property litigation and counselling. He previously worked as assistant legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. During his law studies, Mr. Nadima was an editor of the McGill Law Journal, for which he also edited podcasts. Prior to that, he gained experience in regulatory affairs at Health Canada.

Christina Vroom is an experienced fundraising professional with over 20 years of expertise in the nonprofit sector. Specializing in planned giving, she has held key leadership roles at McGill University, including Associate Director of Planned Giving. Christina manages large donor portfolios, develops tailored strategies to engage donors and volunteers, and leads innovative programs combining communication and gift management. Her proficiency with CRM systems and entrepreneurial approach allow her to enhance donor engagement and financial support effectively. She also mentors teams and contributes to strategic planning. Fluent in three languages, Christina has a strong academic background and a rich history of volunteer leadership, serving on boards and speaking at philanthropy conferences. 

Tamara Vukov is a media artist, filmmaker, researcher, educator, and writer. She has co-founded several media and film collectives and has been actively involved in these communities for many years. Her films, videos, and installations have been shown in over 50 festivals and galleries across more than 15 countries, including La Centrale (Montréal), Version Fest (Chicago), Espacio Plasma (Buenos Aires), Images (Toronto), Skuc (Ljubljana), transmediale (Berlin), Athens Video Art Festival, Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), Director’s Lounge (Berlin), Nigah Fest (New Delhi), and MIX NYC (New York). She has held artist residencies at the Banff Centre and OBORO. An Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Université de Montréal, she publishes in journals such as International Journal of Cultural Studies, Transfers, Topia, Public, and Social Semiotics. Tamara has co-produced community screenings, installations, and live collective cinema performances at venues like Cinémathèque Québécoise and Eastern Front. 

Kim Waldron is a Montreal-based visual artist. Her art practice frequently uses self-portraiture as a means of engaging with various contemporary social situations. Active in the local, national, and international scene, most recently she has exhibited work at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, CIRCA art actuel (Montreal), Jimei X Arles International Photography Festival (Xiamen), Mains d’Œuvres (Paris), Ortega y Gasset Projects (NYC) and Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina). She has an MFA from Concordia University and a BFA from NSCAD University. She has been awarded artist residencies in Paris, Vienna, Newfoundland, Xiamen and Beijing. She was the recipient of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art and the Pierre-Ayot Award in 2013. https://kimwaldron.com/