Meet the Team
Riyaad Seecharan
President & Board Co-Chair
Riyaad Seecharan has been an AIRIE Board Member since 2021, currently serving as the organization's President & Board Co-Chair. Being an avid outdoorsman and environmentalist, he has also achieved the remarkable feat of climbing Mt. Everest. Riyaad is a serial entrepreneur, researcher, and technologist, and a founding member of Tesser Health, a healthcare technology firm focused on simplifying health. As a consultant, he has worked with Fortune 500 companies like Wal-Mart, American Express, and Tradestation, along with organizations such as Dell, IBM, and NASA. To AIRIE, Riyaad brings a strong background in change and systems management, a commitment to diversity, and a passion for preserving the Everglades' unique biodiversity. He is a graduate of Florida International University.
Cornelius Tulloch
Global Artistic Director
Cornelius Tulloch is a Miami, Florida-based interdisciplinary artist and designer. With work transcending the barriers of architecture, visual art, and photography, Tulloch focuses on how creative mediums can be combined to tell powerful stories. With inspiration from his Jamaican and African American heritage, his work expresses how bodies exist between cultures, borders, and characteristics to create spatial impact. His work has been exhibited in fairs and museums including The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., Faena Miami, Pulse Art Fair, Miami, Florida, and the Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy. Tulloch is a graduate of Cornell University School of Architecture.
Kristina Reinis
Operations + Programs Manager
Kristina Reinis is a Miami-based artist, scholar, and arts administrator. She recently graduated with a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School with a focus on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Religion. Her scholarship specializes in the intersections of gender, race, and domesticity in North American evangelicalism and was presented at the Academy of American Religions Annual Meeting in 2022. Her art draws from her scholarship, investigating gendered modes of placemaking and domesticity, as well as play and disability.
Arsimmer McCoy
Residency Coordinator
Arsimmer McCoy is a Miami Gardens, Florida-based storyteller, collaborative artist, educator, and cultural worker, who has been dedicated to these disciplines for over a decade. Raised in Richmond Heights, McCoy earned her Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Literature at Florida Memorial University. She has performed worldwide alongside artists of multiple disciplines and considers it her obligation to bring back the knowledge and stories to her students in South Florida. McCoy produces work in the form of poetry, short story literature, performance, educational workshops, and creative writing & direction.
Juasline Plasencia
Executive Administration
Juasline Plasencia is a Miami-based artist, MDCPS teacher, and art education advocate. They are a Posse Foundation Fellow and graduated from Hamilton College with a Bachelors of Fine Arts. As a first-generation Afro-Caribbean, their work focuses on the relationship between nature, Afro-Taino spirituality, and the experiences of Black & Native Women & Queer peoples.
Heather Roy
Tech Management + Special Projects
Heather Roy is a Virginia-based entrepreneur with strong ties to the Southern US where she spent most of her early years. With a BS in Environmental Science from Western Carolina University, she has a passion for protecting the environment and its creatures. A self-taught techie, she’s merged her expertise in project management, website design, and software systems with her love for the outdoors to serve AIRIE’s purpose since 2021. When not at her desk, you can find Heather exploring the local museums and parks, at a concert, or with a good book and sudoku puzzle in her cozy D.C. home.
“By looking at how our human habits relate to the environment, we can begin to create an inclusive space and dialogue with the environment that fosters a culture of ecological consciousness and social equity”
- Cornelius Tulloch.
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Header Image courtesy of James Jackman