LaQuette Milner
Jayla "River" Ruffus-Milner
Jayla "River" Ruffus-Milner
Founder & Executive Director
LaQuette leads LQ's mission, vision, programs, and community partnerships. A professional stage performer with experience on Broadway and touring nationally, LaQuette brings over two decades of experience in arts education and community engagement, creating spaces where creativity, confidence, and personal growth thrive through the arts.
Jayla "River" Ruffus-Milner
Jayla "River" Ruffus-Milner
Jayla "River" Ruffus-Milner
Coordinator
River is a community builder, former student-athlete, and lifelong creative with academic training in sociology and criminal justice. Having grown up within LQ’s Performing Arts Center, River brings lived experience, empathy, and a deep commitment to trauma-informed, movement-based programming.
Linda Fabre
Jayda Ruffus-Milner
Natasha Ross
Linda offers decades of educational leadership, governance experience, and operational insight to support strong personnel practices, accountability, and strategic growth at LQ’s.
Natasha Ross
Jayda Ruffus-Milner
Natasha Ross
Natasha contributes hands-on community engagement, event-planning expertise, and a commitment to creating safe, welcoming environments that strengthen LQ’s outreach and fundraising efforts.
Jayda Ruffus-Milner
Jayda Ruffus-Milner
Jayda Ruffus-Milner
Jayda brings a people-centered leadership approach, strong active-listening skills, and an innovative mindset that supports inclusive decision-making and youth-focused program growth at LQ’s.
Daniel Varela
Jayda Ruffus-Milner
Jayda Ruffus-Milner
Daniel brings a global, culturally responsive perspective, strong organizational systems thinking, and proven fundraising and communications experience to help LQ’s build long-term sustainability and community connection.