Learning and Impact Strategist
The Center for Cultural Power, United States
Melanie Meinzer, Ph.D. (she/her) is a social scientist and the Learning & Impact Strategist at The Center for Cultural Power, a BIPOC artist-led organization that builds power with artists and culture bearers to envision and create a just world. She is a previous American Council of Learned Societies Leading Edge Fellow, Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow, and Boren Fellow to the West Bank. Prior to joining Cultural Power she served as founding director of the National Fellowships Office at The University of Texas at El Paso, and as Director of alumni programs for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship at The Institute for Citizens and Scholars. She has a Ph.D. in political science from The University of Connecticut, and her writing on international development, climate change, and culturally responsive mentoring appears in academic publications, and in Jadaliyya, Alliance Magazine and Inside Higher Ed.
Kathryn is currently Evaluation and Impact Senior Program Manager at National Employment Law Project, where she works to build and strengthen systems to learn about NELP’s impact, refine strategy, and gather data to more deeply understand and tell the story of NELP’s work. Kathryn brings experiences in research and program design to her work. Most recently, she designed learning and evaluation for programs supporting BIPOC artists to build their power in their fields with The Center for Cultural Power, and she worked on programs supporting local democracy and building racial and economic justice with national network PowerSwitch Action. Kathryn holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she researched and taught courses on narrative and racial, gender, environmental, and disability justice.
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Evaluation to build power with artists and communities of color
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM PST