“But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.”
- Audre Lorde
LAP Guest Speakers
Celeste
(She/Her)
Senior Program Officer for Arts and Culture, The Pittsburgh Foundation; Co-Founder, 1Hood Media
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Courage and Conviction
Alejandra
Duque Cifuentes
(She/Her)
Executive Director, Dance/NYC
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Institutional Work
Jennifer
Wright Cook
(She/Her)
Executive Director, The Field and The Field Vision for Life Preparedness
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
You and Other | Personal Institutional
Tim
Cynova
(He/Him)
Co-CEO, Fractured Atlas
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Undoing Whiteness
Malkia
Devich-Cyril
(They/Them)
Founding Director and Senior Fellow, Media Justice
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Courage and Conviction
Dr. Grace
Gámez
(She/Her/Ella)
ReFraming Justice Coordinator, American Friends Service Committee
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Accountability
Deepa
Iyer
(She/Her)
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Building Movement Project
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Shared Understanding
Marc
Bamuthi Joseph
(He/Him)
Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact, The Kennedy Center
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Maurine
Knighton
(She/Her)
Program Director for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Accountability
Paloma
McGregor
(She/Her)
Co-founder and Artistic Director, Angela’s Pulse
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Interlocking and Interdependent (Systems Thinking)
Tulaine
Montgomery
(She/Her)
Managing Partner, New Profit
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Systemic Humanism
Vision
Selina
Morales
(She/Her)
Folklife Strategist
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Institutional narratives, structure, and culture
Kristina
Newman-Scott
(She/Her)
President, BRIC
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Declarations
Simran
Noor
(She/Her)
Independent Consultant
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Declarations
Ellice
Patterson
(She/Her)
Founder & Executive/Artistic Director, Abilities Dance
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Courage and Conviction
Michele
Russo
(She/Her)
President & CEO, Young Audiences
Arts for Learning
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Undoing Whiteness
Marianna
S. Schaffer
(She/Her)
Independent Consultant, SennaSchaffer Advisors
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Rooting and Embracing Differences
Shawn
Theodore
(He/Him)
Afromythologist, Artist, Dedicated Dad, and Educator
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Interlocking and Interdependent (Systems Thinking)
Meredith
Whittaker
(She/Her)
Co-founder and Faculty Director, AI Now Institute, NYU; Research Professor at New York University; Founder of Google’s Open Research Group
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Undoing Whiteness
Tiffany “Ti”
Wilhelm
(She/They)
Program Officer, Opportunity Fund (Pittsburgh, PA)
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LAP Guest Speaker Conversation:
Shared Understanding