New York Folklore Annual Meeting and Board of Directors Election – 2025
March 19 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm EDT
Please join us for the 2025 Annual Meeting of New York Folklore.
The meeting will take place via Zoom on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Join us to hear of New York Folklore’s 80th Anniversary Plans for 2024
Converse with fellow New York Folklore Members
Elect two new members for the Board of Directors: Violet Baron and Hayden Haynes.
The election will also renew the terms of Sandra Bell, Evelyn D’Agostino, Mira Johnson, MacKenzie Kwok, and Will Walker.
Treasurer James Hall will be elected to another 2-year term and Nada Odeh will be elected to Vice-President.
The bios for the two new board members are the following:
Violet Baron
Violet is Executive Director of Long Island traditions. She holds dual M.A. degrees in Folklore and Media Studies from Indiana University. With a background in multimedia reporting and public radio production, Violet specializes in community engagement and local storytelling with cultural context.
She previously worked for The Association for Cultural Equity and Traditional Arts Indiana, where she researched, documented, and produced podcasts about the folk and traditional arts of diverse communities both locally and internationally. Violet is dedicated to preserving and sharing cultural heritage, both within its communities of origin and to the wider world. To that end, she has contributed projects to the Indiana Arts and Humanities Council and the American Folklore Society.
Hayden Haynes
Hayden Haynes is an artist working deeply in cultural arts revitalization and teaching. A member of the Seneca Nation and Deer Clan, Hayden is a self-taught artist. His current art practice involves working across the mediums of antler, found objects, mixed media, and digital photography.
Born in Claremore, OK, Hayden grew up on the Seneca-Cattaraugus Territory in Western New York. It is from here where he draws inspiration related to land, history, and culture for his artwork, which gives his pieces strong personal and emotional components. Whether his art touches on the Native experience, identity, or resiliency, Hayden’s work is always created through a self-perspective framed Native lens sharing his experiences, knowledge, and observations of living among his community.
In addition to his life as an artist he serves his Seneca community as the director of the Seneca Nation Onöhsagwë: de’ Cultural Center (SNOCC), which houses the Seneca Nation of Indians’ Seneca-Iroquois National Museum (SINM), and Archives. Hayden is dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Senecas, enhancing cultural revitalization with lasting impacts for the future, and serving his people. His is number one aim is to build-community in all that he does.
To attend, please RSVP to info@nyfolklore.org to receive the Zoom link.