Chiwoniso Kaitano

Chiwoniso Kaitano is the 10th executive director of the MacDowell, an arts residency program, a position she was appointed to in 2023. She is the first Black person to hold that position.

Career Kataino holds a law degree from the London School of Economics and a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University.

She then she stepped into arts administration roles. She was appointed executive director of Girl Be Heard, a female performance nonprofit, in 2019. Before that she had been executive director of the Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy in Brooklyn.