Louise Stefanii is a French/Brazilian curator, writer, and founder of the ArtYnsigh Curatorial Projects and the founder director of AFRICANA Art Foundation. Born in Brazil, she studied Art History at Sorbonne University, Museum Studies at Harvard University, and worked with foundations and prominent corporate and private collections in Europe, the United States, and Brazil. Her research focuses on the challenges of private collections becoming public collections, African, African Diaspora, and African American artists. In 2018 she joined the team of the Swiss Institute to launch their first permanent location in New York City. In 2019, she started the Africana Art Foundation with a group of African collectors and philanthropists, a non-profit institution with the mission to promote and study art from Africa and the Diaspora and the impact of African culture among Contemporary Art. Her current projects include a survey of the Sub-Saharan Africa contemporary art scene, where she presented a series of exhibitions with artists from Angola to mark the launch of AFRICANA Art Foundation in January 2020, and an educational project to support the access of African artists to universities in Africa and abroad.