Joshua Henry Jenkins (he/him/his) is human-centered marketing and communications strategist and cultural steward.

With more than a decade of leadership across national service organizations, grassroots networks, and creative platforms, he builds strategies that amplify impact, influence policy, and elevate the voices of communities often marginalized.

As Director of Marketing & Communications at Theatre Communications Group, Joshua shapes campaigns that mobilize theatres, trustees, artists, and advocates, expanding reach, strengthening engagement, and driving national visibility. Before this, at Americans for the Arts, he led digital innovation, web strategy, and multimedia storytelling, helping launch platforms like the Arts Impact Explorer and guiding advocacy efforts through narrative and media.

Joshua also serves as a Communications Consultant and Strategist, advising arts and nonprofit leaders while executing integrated solutions — from branding and web development to social media strategy and campaign implementation. His consulting portfolio includes legacy projects preserving cultural histories, such as managing the reprint of Phyllis Hyman’s official biography and launching the official website for Grammy-winning R&B icon Betty Wright. Clients have included the National Guild for Community Arts Education, Motor House, McLean Community Center, Rainbow History Project, National Association of Black Accountants (Metro DC), Team Rayceen Productions, and Gay Professional Men of Color.

He co-founded BLACK/GAY/stuck at home, a virtual media initiative responding to the isolation of the COVID era by building community, dialogue, and creative visibility for Black queer folks. That project evolved into Foreground, a new platform that preserves and amplifies Black LGBTQ+ storytelling. Joshua has facilitated artist conversations with Patrik-Ian Polk, Vanessa L. Williams, Nathan Hale Williams, and others, and managed partnerships with institutions like Advocates for Youth, Black AIDS Institute, Counter Narrative Project, The Wilma Theatre, and PBS’ POV.

Joshua is a former Board Chair of the Arts Administrators of Color Network, where he guided a 15+ volunteer board, designed AAC’s convening programming, and established a pandemic-era regranting program for artists. As a writer, he co-authored The Impacts of COVID-19 on Black, Indigenous, Artists and Arts Administrators of Color in the U.S. and has contributed to publications like Native Son, Gran Varones, and ARTSblog. He also produced and co-hosted the Art Accordingly podcast, which was showcased at convenings such as the National Performance Network Conference, SphinxConnect, and the Arts Equity Summit.

Joshua is also involved in community leadership: he chairs the Community Advisory Board for Us Helping Us, participates as an advisory board member for Counter Narrative Project, has served on grant panels for the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities and Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and is an alumnus of the artEquity Facilitator Cohort and American Express Leadership Academy.

He holds an M.A. in Interactive Media from Elon University (2012) and a B.A. in Communication Studies from UNC Chapel Hill (2010).

Beyond his werk*, Joshua’s joys include digging in crates for R&B/soul records, live-tweeting awards shows, thrifting, enjoying down time with his cat Octavia, and exploring craft cocktails with his circle of loved ones.