THE DIASPORA TEAM
Kasara E. Davidson
Managing Director - nYc, Washington, DC, & Havana (Founder/Owner)
Kasara transforms obstacles into opportunities, ideas into advantages, and desires into goals & strategies. Since founding Diaspora in early 2015, she has developed dozens of projects and programs, and manages all business development and marketing communications strategies. She leverages her relationships in and knowledge of the Black & Indigenous Diaspora to provide value to clients and communities.
She has a decade of corporate legal experience and over 15 years of consulting experience in business development and program/project management. She graduated cum laude from Howard University School of Law and holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia. She loves to read science and historical fiction, is fascinated by all types of bodies of water, and grew up playing Capoeira de Angola with her father.
Gisela Moreno Correoso
Program Development Liaison / Lead Program Guide & Translator/Interpreter ~ Havana (Independent Contractor - Industry Expert Consultant)
Born in Santiago Cuba, and raised in La Habana Vieja, Gisela brings cities and words to life. She is an English Professor, Tour Guide, and Translator and Interpreter with over four decades of experience. She’s known the Davidson since 2008 and joined the team in 2015. Gisela ensures that no words are lost in Diaspora programs and meetings while building our relationships with Cuban communities and organizations. She infuses words with experience and meaning, brings stories and history to life, and is known to keep the Cuban side of this operation on task. She assists in program/project development, planning, and execution; she is a beloved Tour Guide who maintains relationships with many of our past clients; and as the Lead Translator/Interpreter she ensures that our clients and Cuban hosts have meaningful interactions, even when language could be a barrier.
She has translated for high-level organizations such as the Cuban Trade Union, Congress of World Peace Council, and a variety of Cuban and international officials; she’s diplomatic, yet down-to-earth. She has taught English in a number of high schools, colleges, and national institutions including, Language School of the Transportation Ministry, Cuban Trade Union, and National Bank of Credits and Commerce. She holds a B.A. in from the Higher Foreign Language Institute. She loves nature; reading classic novels and detective stories; and has a newfound interest in Hip-Hop music with positive and community oriented lyrics.
Yrak Seanz
US-Cuba Music Professional - Oakland & Havana (Independent Contractor - Industry Expert Consultant)
Yrak Seanz is a musician, teacher, and business-owner from the Lawton neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. As Hip Hop culture traveled from the US to Havana, he added rhymes to the improvised beat and has been creating rhythm and rhyme ever since 1989. He is 1 of the 2 members of the award-winning Cuban Hip Hop group Doble Filo (Double Edge), and the Founder of US-Cuba production company SOUNDFLOWER PRODUCTIONS.
He has worked throughout the world - Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, South Africa, New York, and California - and has shared stages with legendary artists such as Hip Hop duo Dead Prez. As a Diaspora Project Consultant, Yrak provides insight into and connections with the Cuban music industry, from grassroots artists and production companies to those operated by the Cuban Government. He currently resides in Miami with his wife and 3 children, and enjoys baseball, basketball, and watching movies. As he says, “People think Hip Hop is the only the studio or the stage…no, Hip hop is everything. Hip Hop represents everything that we live.”