University College Dublin

University of Oregon

Interaction Institute for Social Change

Finca Tierra

Executive Director at Cultural Strategies Council

San Francisco Bay Area

Established in 2007, the Cultural Strategies Council (CSC) is a vehicle for interdisciplinary research, strategy, and collaborative learning. The CSC has significant experience working with a diverse range of partners to conceive, develop, and implement transformative community development and organizational change initiatives that embed the arts, culture, and futures-oriented creativity. The CSC works with creatives, development institutions, governments, foundations, non/ for-profit enterprises, and academic institutions. The CSC aims to strengthen individual agency and the collective capacity of development systems to affect meaningful change through transdisciplinary research, radical collaboration, intercultural dialogue, and participatory systems change. This work is predicated on the belief that society’s capacity to transcend existing challenges, address complex issues, and adapt to uncertainty relies on our ability to envisage, assess, and realize alternative futures cooperatively.Lear more at: <a href="http://www.culturalstrategies.net">www.culturalstrategies.net</a>

Cultural Strategy Council

Executive Director

Established in 1966, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation that advances ideas and supports institutions to promote a better world. Today, it is one of the largest philanthropic institutions in the United States, awarding over $450 million in grants in 2019 to organizations across the globe.Kiley Arroyo of the CSC is working in partnership with long time colleague, artist-scholar-activist Ron Ragin, to develop a strategic learning framework with the Performing Arts Program. The program has a long history of supporting meaningful artistic experiences for the people of the San Francisco Bay Area.This collaboration will enhance the capacity of the Performing Arts Program team to implement and assess the Strategic Framework 2020 in alignment with its values, including – the expansive power of the arts, community self-determination, equity and justice, and leadership.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Strategic Learning Initiative

Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) is the only national association of both public and private arts and culture funders in the US, including independent and family foundations, public agencies, community foundations, corporate philanthropies, nonprofit intermediaries, and national service organizations. GIA is actively working to provide funders with new research, resources, and best practices to advance racial justice within and through the arts by addressing inequities at the community level in creative, systemic ways.The CSC is collaborating with GIA to understand how and under what conditions diverse expressions of arts and culture contribute to systems transformation towards racial justice. This work will be used to inform GIA's advocacy, movement, and capacity building strategies that center African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) communities and individuals with disabilities. Please note, we use this term for brevity and with great sensitivity to its reductive capacity.The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed for some and affirmed for others the web of intersectional injustices disproportionately impacting historically divested communities, particularly Black, Latinx, and Indigenous groups. A systems transformation orientation is gaining increasing resonance as a necessary means to address complex issues by enabling a diverse cross-section of partners to transcend oppressive structures, exercise radical imagination, and realize alternative futures cooperatively. As part of this work, the CSC supports shared learning about how funders can contribute to the systemic transformation needed to realize racial justice, including the ways the arts, culture, and radical imagination can enrich the shape, substance, implementation, and beneficiaries of progressive public policies, philanthropic investments, and collaborative practices that unite funders and ALAANA leaders on equal-footing. 

Grantmakers in the Arts

Research & Strategy Consultant - Art at the Intersection of Racial Justice

An initiative of AEA Consulting, the Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN) is an international federation committed to improving the quality of urban life through the contribution of the arts, culture, and creative industries. The membership network fosters cooperation and knowledge sharing among those responsible for creative and cultural districts. It engages leaders in culture and in urban development through convenings, research, and collaborations to inform global, local, and cross-sector agendas.The CSC is investigating how the equitable use of value capture tools can help to build broad-based community wealth and in doing so, enhance the resilience and regenerative capacity of diverse places. Insights from this work will be integrated into a report and participatory workshop, which will be held during the GCDN 2020 Annual Convening in Lugano, Switzerland.

Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN)

Research & Strategy Consultant - Value Capture in Cultural Districts

The Shock of the New: Arts, Technology, and Making Sense of the FutureWhat will our planet look like in 2050 or 2100? Who or what will control our lives? What will it mean to be human? These and other hard questions were the central focus of this timely Salzburg Global session, bringing together artists, creative thinkers, and groundbreaking practitioners from around the world to re-imagine the nexus between the arts, technology and human futures.

Salzburg Global Seminar

Global Fellow

For the 2018-2019 academic year, the Stanford Arts Institute will continue work to advance Stanford Arts Institute globally. The initiative seeks to deepen our collective understanding of the historical and future role of the arts and culture in cities through interdisciplinary research, dialogue, and creative interventions in urban contexts. Using the city as the stage for inquiry, Creative Cities poses questions about the role of art in reimagining the urban sphere, creative economies, the built environment, and more cohesive relationships between and across diverse groups.There are two main programmatic elements to this project: our year-long fellowship, and the Creative Cities Working Group. The year-long fellowship invites two scholars to Stanford to conduct research in this area, teach one class each, and further the campus conversation about creative cities. This year’s fellows are Samuel Franklin and Gülgün Kayim.The Creative Cities Working Group engages a broad array of Bay Area writers, thinkers, artists and curators who are engaging critical thought at the nexus of art and urban life. I am humbled to be part of this esteemed group for the 2017-2018 academic year, which includes a variety of contributions, including public speaking and guest lecturing.

Stanford University

Creative Cities Initiative

HERE FOR NOW is a new kind of arts institution that sees the increasingly decentralized cultural infrastructure as an opportunity for enrichment that spans public and private spheres. HERE FOR NOW creates centers of cultural vibrancy that educate and delight through temporary interventions that are focused on art and design. We aim to create experiences that leave a lasting legacy of optimism, promise and ownership. See our sister project PROXY SF here for inspiration - <a href="http://proxysf.net/Learn">http://proxysf.net/Learn</a> more about HERE FOR NOW at: <a href="http://herefornowsf.tumblr.com/">http://herefornowsf.tumblr.com/</a>

HERE FOR NOW

Board of Directors - Secretary

The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) is the global network of arts councils and ministries of culture, with member institutions in over 70 countries. IFACCA envisions a world in which arts and culture thrive and are recognised by governments and peoples for their contribution to society.In this newly created role, I oversaw the development of a new knowledge and data strategy designed to facilitate collaborative learning and adaptive capacity building across this global network. In parallel, I prepared original research on the impact of global migration and forced displacement on artists as well as the discussion paper and companion report for the 8th World Summit on Arts and Culture.

IFACCA - International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies

Head of Strategic Data and Knowledge

The Kresge Foundation’s Arts & Culture and Health programs have collaborated to fund neighborhood-scale projects demonstrating creative, cross-sector visions of food-oriented development. With FreshLo, The Kresge Foundation is the first national funder to intentionally and equitably integrate food, art and community to drive neighborhood revitalization at this scale.FreshLo brings together organizations focused on a common goal:  to drive equitable and creative development that increases health in underserved communities. A joint initiative from the Arts & Culture and Health Programs, FreshLo provides funding, networking and technical assistance to organizations that incorporate creative placemaking into holistic approaches to healthy food systems.Over the past year, 26 Nonprofit organizations and coalitions from across the nation were awarded $75,000 planning grants through FreshLo to design neighborhood-scale projects demonstrating creative, cross-sector visions of food-oriented development. Working in partnership with Community Science, I served on the phase one evaluation team. Today, I am collaborating with Learning for Action to design and execute a multi-dimensional evaluation framework that will guide grantees, foundation staff, and partners through the implementation phase of FreshLo. This assessment will strengthen our collective understanding of how multidisciplinary approaches to development can generate measurable and equitable outcomes.

Learning for Action

Evaluation, Arts & Culture, and Equitable Development Consultant

During the summer of 2017, Kiley Arroyo of the Cultural Strategies Council collaborated with the Nature Conservancy's Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team to design and facilitate a new innovation lab. The lab brought together a cross-section of staff from the organization's Cities Network to take a critical first step towards developing more just urban conservation strategies.The Nature Conservancy's Cities Network includes a group of urban conservation staff working in 21 cities across the U.S. and globally, who are committed to supporting the voice and vision of local communities to co-develop innovative conservation solutions. By prioritizing collaboration with low-income communities, the Network aims to learn where and how conservation efforts can generate mutual benefits for people and the environment.

The Nature Conservancy

Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Urban Conservation Innovation Lab

Founded in 1990 by the Senate Agricultural Committee, the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) provides unbiased analysis on the challenges and opportunities facing rural America to facilitate public dialogue and help policymakers understand the impacts of strategies on rural people, places, and culture.RUPRI's mission is to ensure rural people have the resources and capacities to create strong, viable, meaningful, and sustainable futures that can both withstand and turn to advantage the forces of globalization and economic, demographic, and social change. RUPRI also aims to ensure rural and urban people find common cause and understanding about the role and governance of rural places and the contribution that rural culture makes to national identity.As a senior research fellow, I am working with RUPRI leadership to integrate an arts and culture dimension to their interdisciplinary portfolio of work. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the USDA Rural Development, RUPRI will establish a cultural research lab designed to strengthen the knowledge base on the cultural life of rural communities. This work will build on RUPRI's comprehensive wealth framework, which examines the role of physical, financial, human, natural, social and cultural capital in achieving sustainable rural prosperity. We aim to advance a more nuanced understanding of the unique ways culture generates value in non-urban contexts, and in doing so, to ensure rural voices play a more meaningful role in domestic cultural policy discourse.

Rural Policy Research Institute

Sr. Research Fellow

In May of 2016, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) re-opened to the public after a two-year transformation by award winning design firm Snøhetta. The new space intentionally embodies an outward-looking architectural design that weaves the museum into the city like never before.No stranger to integrating programs into the Bay Area's social fabric, the museum's Education and Public Practice (EPP) department seized the opportunity to reflect on its evolving role and relationships with a diverse range of community partners. In May, EPP staff launched an evaluation of three partnership-centered programs, including their collaborations with area public high schools, civic institutions, artists, and local cultural organizations. The purpose of this investigation is to draw out insights about the optimal character, structure, evolution, and efficacy of collaborative programming models, and the forces that contribute to or constrain their success. We will use what we learn to develop a new evaluation framework and enhance EPP program and partnership design processes in the future.

SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Evaluation & Institutional Learning Consultant

The Kresge Foundation has engaged Community Science to design an evaluation plan for the new "Fresh, Local & Equitable" Initiative. I will collaborate with Community Science on this groundbreaking effort to provide arts and cultural strategy consulting. Fresh, Local & Equitable is a collaborative effort between The Kresge Foundation's Arts & Culture and Health Programs, which leverages food as a creative platform for neighborhood revitalization. Through this work, the Foundation seeks to support and accelerate local efforts that successfully use food as a platform for health, economic development, and cultural expression, creating co-benefits for all – particularly low-income residents and families. "Fresh Lo" will celebrate neighborhood-scale projects that promote robust community engagement and leadership, prioritize equity, involve cross-sector and discipline partners, and demonstrate a high degree of readiness to implement an integrated, cross-sectoral vision of food-oriented development.From the Foundation: Food is about health, but it is also about community. Food can offer genuine and powerful opportunities to develop relationships and shared experiences. When creatively nurtured, these shared experiences translate into social capital. In both large and small efforts, place-based, food-focused initiatives are beginning to braid arts and culture strategies together with comprehensive initiatives designed to revitalize low-income communities, in partnership with the residents, cultural tradition-bearers, and culinary innovators.

Community Science

Fresh, Local & Equitable: Food as a Creative Platform for Neighborhood Revitalization

As the lead creative placemaking consultant for SPARCC, I have overseen the systemic integration of local arts, culture, creativity, and design across this initiative providing a combination of content expertise to core partners and grantees.SPARCC is a three-year, $90 million initiative to amplify locally driven efforts to ensure that major new infrastructure investments lead to equitable, healthy opportunities for everyone. SPARCC is investing in the ideas, energy, and momentum of local networks to positively shape our cities and regions for generations. SPARCC is a joint initiative of Enterprise Community Partners, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the Low Income Investment Fund, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, and with funding support from the Ford Foundation, The JPB Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and The California Endowment. santos-ciclovia-gonzaga-901390-l1SPARCC seeks to help regions refine and integrate their vision for the future, where the policies and practices that shape the built environment address the issues of racial equity, health, and climate resiliency. Local leaders know that while typically tackled separately these issues are deeply intertwined. When big regional or citywide investments are made residents are often not part of the process to determine how their neighborhoods are shaped. SPARCC is designed to help regions find leverage points where investments can advance change on all of these issues.

Low Income Investment Fund

SPARCC: Strong, Prosperous and Resilient Communities Challenge

Creative CityMaking Minneapolis (CCM) is a multi-year, arts-based innovation initiative that pairs staff in City of Minneapolis departments with experienced community artists to advance the City’s One Minneapolis goal, “Disparities are eliminated so all Minneapolis residents can participate and prosper”.CCM Minneapolis is stewarded by Intermedia Arts, the region’s premier multidisciplinary, multicultural arts center, and The Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy program at the City of Minneapolis. Leveraging the power of the creative process as a resource for the City to make progress on complex challenges, CCM matches experienced community artists with departmental projects generating new intersections – the birthplace of new thinking.CCM builds on the success of a one-year demonstration project in which Minneapolis city planners and artists teamed on the creation of new strategies to engage communities who are under-represented in conventional planning processes. In 2013, seven experienced community arts practitioners were embedded in the Long Range Planning Division of Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED). Artist-planner teams generated 22 tools that allowed planners to extend their reach to gather input about issues from long-term transportation and land use to the immediate economic and social conditions facing Minneapolis neighborhoods. In support of this work and its ongoing evolution, CCM is conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the initiative. As a member of the evaluation advisory team I am responsible for providing provide feedback on the design and processes related to the evaluation of CCM and to support the team in meaning-making, as data is collected and patterns emerge.

Intermedia Arts

Creative CityMaking Minneapolis (CCM) - Evaluation Advisory Team

Over the past 7 years, 49 organizations located throughout the country have participated in the Innovation Lab for the Arts, a rigorously designed and facilitated program that creates the space and conditions for cultural organizations to take risks, test new ideas, and strengthen their ability to adapt to change. Since its inception, three national versions of the Lab have been launched, which include: The Innovation Labs for the Performing Arts, Museums, and Arts Development Agencies. Each Lab was created to strengthen the ability of nonprofits to design, prototype, and implement new ideas that address complex challenges facing the arts and culture sector at large. I've been engaged by EmcArts look back across the program, capture learning, and create a resource on the emerging field of adaptive practice. This assessment will examine the ways the Lab has impacted participating arts organizations as well as its potential to support broader, cross-sector community initiatives.

EmcArts

Arts Innovation Lab - Researcher & Writer

Enterprise Community Partners and the CSC are engaged in an exciting action learning project, with support from the Kresge Foundation. As Enterprise adopts a new opportunity oriented agenda, it will develop a new framework to guide and inform its neighborhood-based transformation work. A range of field-level practices will animate this work, including a more comprehensive adoption of the arts, culture, and creativity based strategies. Working in collaboration with Enterprise leadership, we will pursue the following activities in the month ahead:• Develop an integrated approach to the National Initiatives neighborhood-based revitalization work. • Establish Enterprise Community Partner’s unique position on creative placemaking and the ways it will be integrated into place-based practices. • Strengthen existing organizational capacities and identify critical gaps and organizational development opportunities that support the integration of new practices overtime. Over the next seven months, we will begin to pilot this approach to explore and determine new ways of working within and across the National Initiatives team. Stay tuned to <a href="http://www.culturalstrategies.net">www.culturalstrategies.net</a> for updates on what we're learning!

Enterprise Community Partners

Organizational Change, Neighborhood Revitlization, and Creative Placemaking consultant

Working collaboration with Liz Ogbu of Studio O and Envelope A+D, I am supporting NOW Hunters Point. This project was created to help revitalize the site of a former PG&E power plant in the Bayview–Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco. Over the past year Envelope A+D has implemented a variety of strategies on site including a listening booth in collaboration with Story Corps. Such interventions have been intentionally designed to capture local narratives and celebrate the neighborhood’s rich and varied voices, which subsequently inform future development interventions. In addition, live prototyping is underway, not only to test potential designs, but also to engage community members respectfully in the collective act of neighborhood revitalization. I am conducting research and generating strategy recommendations that will inform the creation of a community benefit organization on site, which will help to ensure the community’s voice, assets, strengths and needs are prioritized within future development scenarios.Learn more at: <a href="http://www.envelopead.com/proj_pge-now.html">http://www.envelopead.com/proj_pge-now.html</a>

envelope A+D

Organizational Development, Research, and Strategy consultant

Over the next six months, a cohort of artists, activists, funders, scholars, research, evaluation, and policy experts will collaborate in an effort to expand the historic frame brought to cultural philanthropy. This participatory learning lab aims to advance new, comprehensive assessment practices that embody values that are congruent with arts and social justice work and build practical knowledge and resources to capture social impact and measure systems change more effectively.  This includes the creation of:* A framework for ethical evaluation principles and practices that reflect values and goals underpinning arts and social change work. * Evaluation frameworks, tools, and methodologies suited to different purposes, including sample indicators to measure change.* Criteria for assessing aesthetic excellence (alongside social efficacy) that promulgate self-determined, meaningful aesthetic outcomes and standards relevant to the work of arts and social justice.

Nathan Cummings Foundation/ Animating Democracy/ Arts, Culture and Social Justice Network

Evaluation Learning Lab: Core Participant

Established in 2011 under the Bloomberg administration and by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Spaceworks is a nonprofit cultural community development organization dedicated to expanding the supply of long-term, affordable rehearsal and studio space for artists working in New York City. Working in collaboration with Nick Rabkin and organizational leadership, we are conducting an assessment of the supply of and demand for, affordable workspace for visual artists residing in New York City’s 5 boroughs. Results of this work will be used to inform Spaceworks’ strategic direction and organizational development goals.

Spaceworks NYC

Research and Organizational Development consultant

Working in partnership with Slover Linett, we are conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the Foundation's Creative and Effective Institutions Award. <a href="http://www.macfound.org/programs/macei/strategy/">http://www.macfound.org/programs/macei/strategy/</a>

MacArthur Foundation

Evaluation consultant

Excited to be working in partnership with Mark Cavagnero and ARUP's design team to support a new master planning process for the Monterey Bay Aquarium. In additional to providing facilitation services I will conduct design research on progressive learning and collaboration <a href="http://environments.http://www.cavagnero.com/index.php">environments.http://www.cavagnero.com/index.php</a>

Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects

Research and facilitation consultant

Building on a relationship that’s grown over the past three years the Kresge Foundation engaged Kiley Arroyo to collaborate with Sr. Advisor Maria Rosario Jackson and the Foundation’s Arts and Culture Team. The Arts team recently launched its new Creative Placemaking strategy, which includes a set of cross cutting initiatives designed to build the enabling conditions for Creative Placemaking activity to be sustained. These initiatives are concerned with various issues including leadership development, learning and evaluation, policy, expanding the use of non-traditional capital, and strategic communications. Kiley is currently conducting an assessment of extant leadership development programs across the US that encourage interdisciplinary partnerships in service of more equitable, creative community development in disinvested communities.

The Kresge Foundation

Research consultant

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Harvard University

Senior Advisor, The Initiative for Sustainable Arts in America - Hauser Institute for Civil Society

Slover Linett is an audience research firm for the arts, culture and informal science sectors. We help museums, arts organizations and other nonprofits understand their audiences so they can connect to more people in a deeper way. Working with a wide range of world class clients including the Walker and Whitney Museums, Carnegie Hall, the Joffrey Ballet, James Irvine Foundation and J. Paul Getty Trust, Slover Linett has proven itself to be an equally world class partner. It's my pleasure to join this stellar team as a fellow.Our studies — which range from market research to program evaluation and outcomes assessment — reveal how well institutions are connecting with their audiences and how that connection can be deepened and broadened.Our findings bring leaders, staff, and trustees together around a clear picture of the audience and a shared vision of progress.The result is more creative, confident decision-making across your organization: more innovative programming, more resonant messaging, and greater success in both mission and revenue terms.Read more about Slover Linett's team and practice areas at: <a href="http://www.slaudienceresearch.com/about">http://www.slaudienceresearch.com/about</a>

Slover Linett Audience Research Inc.

Fellow

Working in partnership with the Foundation Center's Research team and Issue Lab I conducted an evaluation synthesis of the US cultural innovation landscape. Specific attention was paid towards understanding ways cultural strategies have been used to increase equity and the resilience ofunderserved populations. This work resulted in the publication, 'Key Lessons from the Field of Cultural Innovation' and provides the basis upon which a formal evaluation of the Foundation's NYC Cultural Innovation Fund was conducted. The report is available on Issue <a href="http://Lab.org">Lab.org</a>.

The Rockefeller Foundation

Working on behalf of the Foundation Center and in partnership with Harvard’s Hauser Institute for Civil Society and Fractured Atlas, I was responsible for design and implementation of theInitiative's national research strategy. This work also included the creation of the complementary study Birth and Mortality Rates of Arts and Cultural Organizations, 1990-2010, a causation analyses oforganizational life cycles and a comprehensive assessment of how funders might ‘right size’ futureinvestments. I continue to serve as a senior advisor to the Foundation Center and this project.

Deputy Director of Research

Building on research about the birth and mortality rates of US cultural organizations, highly effective institutional models, and ecological principles of resilience, the Adaptive Capital project is focused on identifying new ways to capitalize social enterprises and cultural development. This investigation includes analyses of the ways existing financial mechanisms, products, and organizational models might be adopted and adapted to transform the ways we capitalize creative activity in the US. Worker cooperatives, sector-specific credit unions, nonprofit banks, CDFIs, PRIs, MRIs, social impact bonds, impact investing strategies, and non-traditional giving circles have been examined with an eye to identifying new ways to manage the capital that already exists in the sector, albeit in fractured places, as well as the ways other forms of "capital" such as collections might be leveraged in new ways. This work is predicated on the belief that the culture sector, and the arguably the social sector writ large, will not realize its fullest potential until we reimage the ways it's capitalized.

Alternative Capital

Founder & Director

McKinsey & Company

Social Sector Practice Assistant

Teaching artist, museum educator / curator, cultural researcher, policy fellow at organizations including Demos and UNESCO