Jeff M. Poulin

Managing Director

Focus: Public Policy, Global Programs

Jeff M. Poulin (he/him) serves as the Managing Director of Creative Generation and the lead for strategic impact. In this role, he is responsible for the organization’s fidelity to its mission, vision, values, and goals, while overseeing a portfolio of interconnected large-scale projects and the fiscal and human resources of the organizations.

Jeff is an American educationalist, non-profit administrator, and social entrepreneur whose work is grounded in social justice and seeks transformative local solutions to complex global challenges.

In 2019, Jeff founded Creative Generation, values-forward global collective that co-creates with young creatives and those who cultivate their creativity to take local actions towards global changes in pursuit of a more just world.  Since the founding, Jeff has led a team that produces global messaging campaigns, creates unique learning environments, conducts original research, and supports people and projects working at the intersection of arts/culture, education, and social change. He serves as the Principal Investigator for the Institute for Creative Social Transformation, lead Facilitator for the Academy of Creative Leadership, host of the Why Change? podcast, and Executive Editor of the Campaign for a Creative Generation and the Creative Generation Journal.

With over a decade of experience as a performer, teaching artist, education researcher, and arts administrator, he previously led a national program, where he worked to advance local, state, and federal policies supportive of equitable access to arts education throughout the United States. Jeff is a tap dancer by trade and continues to mentor young dancers in the U.S. and in the U.K.

Jeff is widely published, serves as a reviewer for grant and research panels, and speaks to audiences across the country and around the globe. Currently, he serves in the faculty of arts management at Carnegie Mellon University and previously taught at American University and The City College of New York.

Jeff hails from Portland, Maine and earned degrees in arts management, cultural policy, and education at Oklahoma City University, University College Dublin, and the University of Glasgow. 

Location: Portland, Maine, USA

Email: Jeff@Creative-Generation.org