The Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship has been awarded to dozens of talented cultural workers since its inception in 2014. Meet the cohort of ICA Cycle X, below.
Cycle X of the CCCADI Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship gathered engaged alumni from the previous 9 cycles to brainstorm both the past impact and future of this work. Over a five-day intensive, this Alumni Think Tank explored the meaning and practice of cultural equity, resistance, creative placemaking, community engagement and advocacy in a world where diversity and racial justice have been popularized within the media yet are fraught and debated social constructs in practice.
About the Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship:
Founded in 2014, the CCCADI Innovative Cultural Advocacy (ICA) Fellowship trains mid-career professionals of historically marginalized communities of color for public leadership and management of cultural institutions and nonprofit arts organizations in New York City and across the nation. A noted pioneering initiative in arts advocacy and cultural equity, the ICA Fellowship has been an impetus for radical change in New York City. The fellowship seeks to involve and increase the number of emerging leaders of these marginalized populations in cultural arts, public policy, and advocacy arts.
The Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship is supported in part by American Express, Councilmember Diana Ayala, Council member Laurie Cumbo, and The New York State Council on the Arts.