Alanna Nichelle is an American cultural producer and creative entrepreneur based in Lisbon, Portugal. She is the founder of M8triarch — a cultural platform and creative space in Graça built around a single conviction: that artists need conditions, not just opportunities.

Her path to M8triarch ran through more than a decade in Oakland, where she founded and operated UrbanStitch — an artist development and retail studio space that supported over 200 artists, earned a Sunset Magazine feature, and produced events with Dreamforce, Google Trailblazers, and Oakland City Planning. Before that, she worked as a professional wardrobe stylist in Los Angeles and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area — for celebrity and major corporate retailers. With an extensive background in Merchandise Buying, she built lasting relationships with personalities and brands including Jennifer Lopez, Bobbi Brown, Kadeem Hardison, Tyson Beckford, Bebe, Nordstrom, Macy's, and Urban Stitch Boutiques.

M8triarch takes its name — and its founding ethos — from Alanna's grandmother, the Matriarch. Nona's belief in the possible is the room M8triarch tries to build every time its doors open.

Now in Lisbon, Alanna runs M8triarch's programming, develops its patron infrastructure, and works at the intersection of art, community, and cultural production across two continents. Her transatlantic positioning bridges Oakland, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles with Lisbon and the broader European cultural ecosystem.

M8triarch's programming includes First Fridays, The Salon, Soul Sessions, UNSEEN Speakers Series, Inner Spaces, private chef dinners, and Perspectives of Belonging — a 14-artist exhibition presented at Lisbon Design Week with Novobanco sponsorship.