In March 2020, the team at Creative Generation - and a collection of co-conspirators who became the first co-hosts - launched a new podcast: Why Change? The Podcast for a Creative Generation. The goal was to share the stories of changemakers who were having a positive impact on their communities. What we learned, though, was that the stories shared were those of self-actualization, systems disruption, and creativity in action. It was amazing.
Read moreLearning Unlearning: Learning and unlearning go hand in hand
I am very much a part of the growing consensus that we, as individuals and as societies, need to change our behaviors and systems if we hope to eradicate the inequities these behaviors and systems uphold. While change often involves struggle and discomfort, I have learned to embrace it. Learned, being the operative word, meaning that overtime my cumulative experience with change taught me that I can count on it to be a conduit for good things in my life.
Read moreMODERN MENTORSHIP: Thinking about mentorship in a horizontal way
While this may not be the only way to consider what mentorship typically looks like, I feel safe to assume that we typically think of mentors as people who are above us. Mentorship is often based on a one-way stream of experience, or in other words knowledge that is not openly available, from the mentor to the mentee.
Read moreAn Alternative Guide for Young Creatives Planning a Career in the Arts
In May 2021, just a few weeks before joining Creative Generation, I completed work on ‘Make or Break: Race and Ethnicity in Entry-Level Compensation for Arts Administrators in Los Angeles County’ a study focused on the relationship between entry-level earnings and the diversity of Los Angeles-based entry-level arts administrators. Personally, this was an attempt to put a spotlight on one barrier in the arts that I had rarely noticed being addressed in literature, policy, or even conversations between colleagues. No one likes to talk about money, however, the lack of transparency about the value of our work, as the study went on to show, has detrimental effects on the working conditions and experiences of all arts administrators, and especially those who are BIPOC.
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