Timeka Junius a native of New Orleans with a degree in graphic design, YAYA artist alumna (1993). As an artist I’ve traveled abroad from San Francisco to Ireland. I have over a decade of experience as a visual arts educator and mentor in charter, private, and alternative schools in Orleans, St. Bernard, and Jefferson parish. Currently, I’m the Senior Director of Programs at the YAYA Arts Center where I lead and facilitate visual arts programs for youth and their families. Facilitate & led youth development trainings and mentor Teachings artists for the past ten years. I enjoy bringing young people, cousins, aunties, uncles to the Arts Center to create their special memories through art. My true fulfillment is caring for my three beautiful children and a wife to my husband of 26 years. I aspire and mentor young people everyday to reach beyond the norm, to achieve the impossible, and to define what success looks like for them.