Join Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) for a dynamic Salon Day celebrating Emerging Artist Program recipient Jasmine Ross and her solo exhibition Beauty Plus.

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From 1–2 PM, engage in an intimate panel conversation exploring the Black-owned beauty supply and the evolution of today’s beauty industry, moderated by Cornelia Stokes, featuring Jasmine Ross, Annie Jackson of CREDO Beauty, Jamaya Moore of e.l.f. Cosmetics, and Franchesca Hashim of Good Weather Skin.

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From 2–4 PM, enjoy hands-on shade matching with e.l.f. Cosmetics makeup artists, offering personalized guidance on undertones and complexion products.

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All participants will receive curated “beauty supply” goodie bags valued at $200+ featuring products from CREDO Beauty, e.l.f. Cosmetics, Sweet July, Rare Beauty, PATTERN Beauty, and Good Weather Skin, made possible by their donations.

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Jasmine Ross is a multi-media artist based in Oakland, California, and a recent graduate of Yale College, where she earned a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, Economics, and Art. Her fine-arts documentary photography explores themes of identity politics, intergenerational memory, and fictive kinship, reflecting her perspective as a bi-racial Black woman. Working primarily with large format cameras, Ross embraces the slow, deliberate nature of analog image-making. Her practice grounds itself in honoring community-builders, and ensuring their contributions are acknowledged within their lifetimes. Her work has been featured in the L.A. Times and exhibitions such as Tell It Slant at the Yale School of Art.

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Cornelia Stokes curatorial practice is based in Pan-African practices and kinship, focusing on building community through the arts and philosophies of the Black diaspora. Looking to complexify the oversimplification of Blackness within mainstream culture, Stokes invests in opportunities to promote and explore the wide varieties of the Black experience. Cornelia Stokes is the inaugural Assistant Curator of the Art of the African Diaspora with The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD).

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Oakland native Jamaya Monroe, Senior Manager of retailer.com at e.l.f. Cosmetics, is a digital and merchandising leader who has created consumer first experiences across retail commerce platforms. For the past eight years Jamaya has worked at e.l.f. Beauty where she established the Retailer.com department through marketing and site merchandising for four e.l.f. Beauty brands at 10+ retailers and counting. With the goal to make beauty accessible for every eye, lip, and face no matter where you shop, Jamaya continues to enjoy the art of storytelling and using communication as a vehicle to market, educate, and provide consumers memorable shopping experiences through a digital lens with a personal touch.

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Annie Jackson, CEO and Co-founder of Credo Beauty, is a beauty industry veteran who has played a key role in the success of some of the world’s most influential beauty companies. She began her career at Estée Lauder and was later recruited as an early team member for the launch of Sephora in both the U.S. and Japan. She went on to hold leadership roles in global product marketing and merchandising for Benefit Cosmetics, as well as for Sephora inside JC Penney.

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Jackson is now the CEO and Co-founder of Credo Beauty, where she has been instrumental in shaping the clean beauty movement and advancing more transparent, health-conscious standards across the industry. Her commitment to changing the way people think about what they put on their skin has helped foster a new generation of beauty brands centered on safer, cleaner ingredients.

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A recognized advocate for policy reform, Jackson has testified before the U.S. Congress to push for increased innovation in sunscreen active ingredients and has supported the landmark Toxic-Free Cosmetics Acts in California, Washington, and Oregon.

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She is also a Co-Founder of Pact Collective, a nonprofit collective that unites the beauty industry to reduce packaging waste and advance more circular, sustainable solutions.

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Franchesca Hashim, Co-Founder & CEO of Good Weather Skin, spent her career at brands that refused to accept the status quo — scaling Airbnb during its peak growth years, then leading marketing at Everlane and MasterClass. But it was the birth of her twin daughters that shifted her focus entirely.

Looking for clean skincare she could feel good about, she kept running into the same problem: the sunscreen market was stagnant, and it wasn't built for everyone. Products that worked beautifully on lighter skin tones left others with a white cast, and truly clean formulas were hard to come by. She wasn't willing to settle — so she didn't.

In 2025, Franchesca co-founded Good Weather Skin — a sunscreen brand built on the belief that SPF should work as well as it feels. Every formula is grounded in clean, nourishing skincare ingredients designed to be pleasurable to use, genuinely effective, and beautiful across all skin tones.

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