Chiwoniso Kaitano is a champion of readers and writers everywhere. As executive director of MacDowell, she oversees the nation’s oldest arts residency, which annually welcomes 300 groundbreaking artists from around the world and of every discipline to its bucolic campus in New Hampshire. Before MacDowell, Chiwoniso led Girl Be Heard as well as Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy, and is on the boards of New York’s International Contemporary Ensemble, The Center for Fiction, and the Jazz Leaders Fellowship of Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.