Sumayya Jaeh is a curator, a program manager, and a public policy enthusiast. She is the Creative Director for Open Arts, a literary collective hub she co-founded to use art as a form of expression in Northern Nigeria. where she curates the annual HIBAF art Exhibition and film screening. She is the curator for Untu Art Gallery, an art gallery that aims to bring to the world stage arts from West Africa with a keen interest in northern Nigeria arts.
She is Kashim Ibrahim fellow and a fellow of the Arts Managers and Literary Activists network.