Contributor Bios

Todd Lester

http://freedimensional.org/about/people/ Todd Lester recently assumed the role of Executive Director for Global Arts Corps before which, he consulted for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Fonds BKVB, Lambent Foundation, Arts Collaboratory, and the Astraea Lesbian Justice Foundation. Currently, he serves on the boards of artist and literary residencies in India, Germany, and Mexico and recently wrote desk studies for FREEMUSE/SIDA and Res Artis/Fonds BKVB on the residency sectors in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, West Africa, North Africa, Middle East, Central America and South America. In Winter 2012, Todd convened a workshop for the Heinrich Boell Stiftung on ‘Conditions that put Artists in Danger’ for its February 2012 Radius of Art conference and gave a keynote address to the Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting on residency and new forms of sharing in the wake of Japan’s 2011 earthquake. Todd holds a Masters of Public Administration from Rutgers University and is a graduate of the Refugee Studies Centre’s Summer School in Forced Migration at Oxford University. Todd received the Peace Corps Fund Award for his work starting freeDimensional; was named ‘Architect of the Future’ by the Waldzell Institute in 2008; and serves as a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute where he is the focal point on issues of art and policy.

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