Project Leadership Team, Co-Creators, Co-Designers
To support NAS in creating our first ever program fully designed through co-creation, we brought together the following leadership team and an incredible team of co-designers. They’re a combination of NAS alumni and partners, of different ages and at different stages of their careers, with different artistic backgrounds and differing views of the world. They were chosen for the depth, breadth and diversity of their skills, knowledge, perspectives, identities, and lived experiences.
Below is the leadership team actively designing The Project from the integral foundation built by our co-designers.
Sophia Chung
Learning Architect
Foundry Learning Design
Founder & Principal
Meaningful Observations, LLC
Associate Professor
The University of Washington College of Education
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Peoplemovr
Deputy Director, Dept. of Economic & Workforce Development
City of Oakland
Founder & CEO
The Design for Feelings Studio
Below are the advisors we invited to co-create and co-design this new program. They’re a combination of NAS alumni and partners, of different ages and at different stages of their careers, and with different artistic backgrounds and differing views of the world.
Torrie Allen
President & CEO
Arts Midwest
Casandra Hernandez Faham
Program Associate
Mellon Foundation
Rachel Moore
President & CEO
The Music Center
Madeline Sayet
Executive Director
Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Center
Michael Bobbitt
Executive Director
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Cristy Johnston Limón
Deputy Director, Department of Economic and Workforce Development
City of Oakland
Kristina Newman-Scott
Executive Director
The Greenspace, NYPR
Eduardo Vilaro
Artistic Director & CEO
Ballet Hispanico
Jeannette Colyvas
Faculty
Northwestern University
Deputy Director for Public Experience & Learning
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Andrew Proctor
Executive Director
Literary Arts
Joan Vorderbruggen
Community Arts Organizer &
NAS Coach
Sally Fifer
Former President & CEO
Independent Television Service
Tim Lennon
Former Executive Director
LANGSTON
Michelle Ramos
Former Executive Director
Alternate ROOTS
Tran Vu
Founding Principal & Creative Director
Tran Vu Arts