Join Drexel's Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program as we kick off the first installment of the Fall Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series focusing on Climate Justice, featuring Emma Glasser of Fossil Free Penn on Friday, September 24 at 7:00 pm ET.

Emma Glasser is an undergraduate at UPenn studying Materials Science and Engineering and Environmental Science. She has worked at APPRISE, Resources for the Future, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, and the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative. This work has included research on energy affordability, decarbonization technologies and policies, the economic impacts of wildfires on water quality, and the Green New Deal. Her passions revolve around climate justice and community organizing, fulfilled through her volunteering with Philly Thrive, leadership in the student led climate justice group Fossil Free Penn, and activism with Line 3 resistance.

Twitter: @fossilfreepenn

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Join Drexel's Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program for another installment of the Fall Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series focusing on Climate Justice, featuring Camille-Mary Sharp on Friday, October 1 at 7:00 pm ET.

Camille-Mary Sharp is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, where she also completed a Master of Museum Studies. Bridging the fields of museology and political economy, her research explores the implications of sponsorship by oil companies for museum practice in Canada. She has published in the Blackwood Gallery’s Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the Journal of Curatorial Studies, and the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice blog. Camille-Mary developed and recently taught the master's course Museums, Activism and Social Change at the University of Toronto. She is also a member of the Beyond Extraction Collective and a participant in her faculty's Indigenous Solidarity Working Group.

Twitter: @camillemarys

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Join Drexel's Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program for a special lunchtime installment of the Fall Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series focusing on Climate Justice, featuring Henry McGhie of Curating Tomorrow on Friday, October 8th at 12:00 Noon ET.

Twitter: @Henry_McGhie

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Join Drexel's Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program for another installment of the Fall Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series focusing on Climate Justice, featuring Tara Moses of Groundwater Arts on Friday, October 15 at 7:00 pm ET.

Tara Moses (she/her) is a citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Mvskoke, director, multi award-winning playwright, Producing Artistic Director of telatúlsa, co-Artistic Director of Red Eagle Soaring, and co-Founder of Groundwater Arts. She holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Tulsa and is expected to attend Brown University/Trinity Rep as an MFA Directing Candidate in the fall of 2021.

Twitter: @TaraTomahawk, @GroundwaterArts

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Join Drexel's Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program for another installment of the Fall Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series focusing on Climate Justice, featuring Sarah Sutton of Sustainable Museums on Friday, October 22 at 7:00 pm ET.

Sarah Sutton is CEO of Environment and Culture Partners (ECP), a non-profit accelerating cultural institutions’ leadership in climate action. ECP manages the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, a grant program supporting energy efficiency and clean energy projects at visual arts institutions. ECP also organizes the Cultural Sector Lead for America is All In, the US subnational organizations supporting the Paris Agreement. She was an adviser for a new sustainability grants program internal to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and is a Steering Committee member and Climate Change co-chair, for Held In Trust, a special program of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute for Conservation that is shaping the future of preventive conservation profession. Sutton is also a member of the American Psychological Association’s Climate Change Task Force. She is co-author of two editions of The Green Museum and author of Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites & Museums.

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Join Drexel's Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program for a special lunchtime installment of the Fall Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series focusing on Climate Justice, featuring Conrad Alexandrowicz & David Fancy authors of Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis (2021) on Friday, October 29 at 5:00 pm ET.

Conrad Alexandrowicz, MFA, is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Victoria, where he teaches movement for actors, and directs department productions. Over a decades-long career in performance he migrated from dance to theatre, and has been a dancer, choreographer, writer of texts for dance, playwright, actor, director and producer. He created over fifty dance- and physical theatre works, many of which were presented across Canada, and internationally. His writing has been published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Studies in Theatre and Performance, and Theatre Topics. His first book, Acting Queer: Gender Dissidence and the Subversion of Realism, was published by Palgrave February 2020.

David Fancy, PhD is Professor and Chair in the Department of Dramatic Arts, Brock University. He brings his philosophical interests in immanentist thought to performance studies, science and technology studies, and critical disability studies. Recent publications include Fancy, David, and Hans Skott-Myhre, Eds. Immanence, Politics and the Aesthetic: Thinking Revolt in the 21st Century. McGill-Queens University Press, 2019; and Fancy, David, and Lillian Manzour Eds. Teatro de Tres Americas: Antología Norte. Ediciones Sin Paredes, 2020. Fancy has an extensive practice as a playwright and director of theatre, opera, and circus; he is the editor of a website on the subject of actor training and diversities.

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Join Drexel's Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program for another installment of the Fall Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series focusing on Climate Justice, featuring Netanel Portier & Sepideah Mohsenian-Rahman of Philly Mural Arts, Mural Arts Institute on Friday, November 5 at 7:00 pm ET.

The Mural Arts Institute is dedicated to advancing research on and development of socially-engaged public art practices. Their work is in service to a larger movement that values equity, fairness and progress across all of society. They bring the Mural Arts model to other change-oriented cities and leaders across the globe to help build their capacity and sustain community-driven public art projects and participatory practices. They work with artists, activists, planners, organizations, cultural institutions, municipal governments and more with the goal of igniting change through equitable and accessible participatory public art practices. The Mural Arts Institute is supported by the JPB Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Netanel Portier (she/her) is the Director of the Mural Arts Institute, an initiative of Mural Arts Philadelphia that advances research and development of socially-engaged, participatory public art practices by bringing the Mural Arts model to other cities across the country. Portier has over 15 years of experience bringing diverse artists and communities together for transformative public projects and programs, not only as a project manager but also as an artist, teacher, curator and médiatrice culturelle. She is devoted to promoting social engagement, meaningful action and, through her work with Mural Arts Philadelphia, has developed and managed diverse, complex socially engaged public art projects. As Director of the Project Management Office, a role she held prior to her current position, Portier led the design and implementation of project management processes and tools for the Mural Arts program and model. In her current role as Director of the Mural Arts Institute, Portier leads learning engagements across the country and internationally with individual artists, administrators, institutions, and cultural and community-led organizations. Netanel is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris, France.

Sepideah Mohsenian-Rahman (she/they) is a cultural and social worker caring for people and the planet, she engages in meaningful creative inquiry with Mural Arts Philadelphia as Manager of the Mural Arts Institute and curator at 12Gates Gallery. She stewards projects that explore the role of artists, cultural workers, frontline communities and more just futures. Sepideah formerly served as the Program Director of UC Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center, and supported various international humanitarian organizations including the United Nations, Relief International, and Seeds of Peace. In Philadelphia, she organizes with the Philly DSA’s Racial Justice Committee. Sepideah engages with healing arts and trauma-informed modalities through her training as a liberatory community herbalist through Rootwork Herbals and as full spectrum doula through Bronx Doulas; she received a Masters of Social Work from Columbia University, and dual-degrees in International Peace and Conflict Resolution, and Religious Studies from American University.

Twitter: @muralarts

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Join Drexel's Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program for a special lunchtime installment of the Fall Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series focusing on Climate Justice, featuring BP or not BP? on Friday, November 12 at 12:00 pm ET.

BP or not BP? are an activist theatre group. They create performances, without permission, inside cultural spaces sponsored by the fossil fuel industry. They are part of the wider UK Art Not Oil movement that has had major success in ending oil sponsorship deals at a large number of UK theatres and galleries, including Tate, the National Theatre, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Twitter: @drop_BP

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Join Drexel's Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program for a special lunchtime installment of the Fall Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series focusing on Climate Justice, featuring Miranda Lowe on Friday, November 19 at 12:00 pm ET.

Miranda Lowe is a principal curator and scientist at the Natural History Museum, London looking after their oceanographic collections of corals, crabs and jellyfish. She presents lectures and publishes on both curatorial and scientific uses of museum historical collections in current climate change research as well as decolonial approaches to this work. Her media work with creative industries allows her to link art, science, and nature to aid the public understanding of natural world. She is a co-founder of Museum Detox, network for people of colour who work in the arts and heritage sector championing EDI. As part of the Climate Reframe UK project, she collaborates with some of the best Black, Brown, Asian, People of Colour and UK based Indigenous Peoples who are advocating for climate justice. She is chair of arts charity Culture&, trustee at York Museums Trust and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK. Miranda recently won the Soc. Hist. Nat. Hist. President’s Award 2021 and is listed in the BBC Women's Hour Power List 2020: Our Planet.

Twitter: @NatHistGirl

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Join Drexel's Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program for the final installment of the Fall Cultural Leadership Guest Speaker Series focusing on Climate Justice, featuring Molly Braverman of Broadway Green Alliance on Friday, December 3 at 7:00 pm ET.

Molly Braverman is the Director of the Broadway Green Alliance. She previously served as the Managing Director of Theatre Horizon, a non-profit professional theatre company in Norristown, PA. She has worked as a Stage Manager on Broadway, Touring Broadway, and regionally, having spent three years on the road with the National Tour of Wicked and continuing to serve as a substitute Stage Manager on Wicked and Hamilton. She founded the Philadelphia Green Theatre Alliance, a regional chapter of the Broadway Green Alliance, and is a trained Climate Reality Leader.

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