Introducing ALAC
ArtsEd Leadership Advisory Committee collective impact panel
What is ALAC?
Chicago’s creative and cultural sector, and more specifically the arts education sector, is at a critical juncture as it emerges from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and rebuilds.
In accordance, Ingenuity is reframing our vision for community engagement, moving from three separate Collective Impact Panels to one ArtsEd Leadership Advisory Committee (ALAC).
These 15 ALAC panel members–representing a diverse cross-section of partners, teachers and teaching artists– will play a vital role in catalyzing arts education stakeholders around the shared agenda of arts education equity in Chicago Public Schools (CPS). They will drive this work by providing leadership and guidance around the specific elements necessary for collective action to succeed: a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support organizations.
ALAC Panel Members: 2022-23
| Katia Borione Arts & Culture Community Partnership Specialist Communities In Schools of Chicago |
Eboné Harden Director of Education Hubbard Street Dance Chicago |
| Courtney Bradshaw Executive Director Youth Civic Light Opera of Chicago |
Jennifer Hodges Vice President Whole Child Initiative, KIPP Chicago |
| Priscilla Chico Visual Arts Teacher George M Pullman ES |
Michael Manson Founder and Executive Director Musical Arts Institute |
| Ilesa Duncan Artistic Director Lifeline Theatre |
David Mathews Creative Writing Instructor & Administrative Assistant to Artistic Director Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) |
| Ladonna Freidheim Founder & President ReinventAbility |
Leo Park Music Teacher CPS – Northside College Prep |
| Susan Friel Programs Coordinator City of Chicago’s DCASE |
Elizabeth Sampson Executive Director Chicago Poetry Center |
| Christopher Graves Principal CPS-LaSalle Language Academy |
Naomi Sheridan Senior Director of Development The Chicago Center for Arts and Technology |
| Krystal Grover-Webb Visual Arts Teacher & Arts Liaison CPS-Amelia Earhart Elementary School |
Jonathan VanderBrug Deputy Director Arts Alliance Illinois |
| Samina Hadi-Tabassum Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Child Development Program; Director of School & Community Partnerships Erikson Institute |
Kate Walsh School Partnerships Programs Manager Old Town School of Folk Music |
| Justine Haka Poetry Manager Poetry Foundation |
Antoinette Wright Executive Director National Museum of Gospel Music & Camp of Dreams |
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