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

Sophia Chung
Learning Architect
Foundry Learning Design

Elide Flores-Medel
Elidé Flores-Medel
Founder & Principal
Meaningful Observations, LLC
Ann Ishimaru
Ann M. Ishimaru
Associate Professor
The University of Washington College of Education
Geoffrey Jackson Scott
Geoffrey Jackson Scott
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Peoplemovr
Cristy Johnston Limón
Cristy Johnston Limón
Deputy Director, Dept. of Economic & Workforce Development
City of Oakland
Olivia Vagelos
Olivia Vagelos
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

Torrie Allen
President & CEO
Arts Midwest

Casandra Hernandez Faham

Casandra Hernandez Faham
Program Associate
Mellon Foundation

Rachel Moore

Rachel Moore
President & CEO
The Music Center

Madeline Sayet

Madeline Sayet
Executive Director
Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Center

Michael J Bobbit

Michael Bobbitt
Executive Director
Massachusetts Cultural Council

Christy Johnston Limon

Cristy Johnston Limón
Deputy Director, Department of Economic and Workforce Development
City of Oakland

Kristina Newman-Scott

Kristina Newman-Scott
Executive Director
The Greenspace, NYPR

Eduardo Vilaro

Eduardo Vilaro
Artistic Director & CEO
Ballet Hispanico

Jeannette Colyvas

Jeannette Colyvas
Faculty
Northwestern University

Jim Leija
Jim Leija
Deputy Director for Public Experience & Learning
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Andrew Proctor

Andrew Proctor
Executive Director
Literary Arts

Joan Vorderbruggen

Joan Vorderbruggen
Community Arts Organizer &
NAS Coach

Sally Fifer

Sally Fifer
Former President & CEO
Independent Television Service

Tim Lennon

Tim Lennon
Former Executive Director
LANGSTON

Michelle Ramos

Michelle Ramos
Former Executive Director
Alternate ROOTS

Tran Vu

Tran Vu
Founding Principal & Creative Director
Tran Vu Arts