

ILI Alumni Talk Poetry: Shin Yu Pai & Theo Wilson in Conversation
Poet & Producer Shin Yu Pai & History Channel host Theo Wilson talk about their shared ILI leadership program journey and the power of poetry

ILI Alumni Event: Shin Yu Pai on KUOW Shorts
See more in this series from shin Yu Pai’s new project Join the KUOW Shorts live event series featuring Year 2 ILI Alum Shin Yu

Meet the Year 4 ILI Team!
There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes to make each ILI Year a meaningful experience. Meet the Year 4 ILI Team! Some

ILI Alumni News: Congratulations Esperanza Center & Graciela Sanchéz
The Wallace Foundation named the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center as one of 18 organizations in their 2022 arts initiative. The Center is directed by

Welcome Year 4 Participants!
We are excited to welcome the Year 4 Participants to their cohort of the Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI), a collaborative program of Alternate ROOTS, First Peoples

Welcome New ILI Partners!
The founding partners of the Intercultural Leadership Institute are pleased and honored to announce and welcome two new high-impact cultural organizations as partners of ILI.

APAP Honors Lori Pourier with Sidney R. Yates Award for Outstanding Advocacy on Behalf of the Performing Arts
The Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) Honors celebrates and recognizes trailblazers and visionaries of the performing arts field. For more than five decades, the

ILI Featured in “Moving Philanthropy Forward”
Hear from 10 sector experts on reshaping the world of giving in Submittable’s newest guide, Moving Philanthropy Forward! See ILI’s feature on page 30 with

ILI Participant Reflections: Rani Pramesti
We recently caught up with Rani Pramesti to talk about their experience in ILI Year 3, interculturalism, and their current artistic work in the field.

ILI ROOTS Intensive
Alternate ROOTS served us the last workshop. I have endless gratitude for all the learning we had passed to us as members of the Year

Carrie Brunk Honored with Sallie Bingham Award
Congratulations to ILI Senior Advisor Carrie Brunk for being awarded the 2021 Sallie Bingham Award by the Kentucky Foundation for Women! “My goal is to

ILI Alumni Arturo Herrera Interviews Artist Josué Emmanuel Fierro
Year 1 Participant Arturo Herrera recently interviewed and reflected on the work of artist Josué Emmanuel Fierro for the ILI Voices blog and his own

ILI Participant Livestream: 8/25/21 “Phoning It In”
Open Call for Stories Phoning It In: Acts of Artist Activism Feat. Marlo De Lara/Carol Zou Livestream: Wednesday, August 25th on https://www.twitch.tv/coaxialarts 6PM PST As artists and cultural makers,

ILI Alum Event: 8/21/21 Marshall Trammell’s Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement #1
Pro Arts in partnership with AGENCY Oakland invites you to The LOOM, on August 21st, 2021, at 6:00PM for a public site-tuning event, entitled Ebonics Native

ILI PA’I Foundation Intensive
Loving the @weareili fellowship trainings! Excellent and vulnerable presentations from @paifoundation regarding what being Hawaiian means after all the settlers and various waves of migration, love for community,

ILI NALAC Intensive
Still reeling from the @weareili fellowship training from @nalac_arts . Been reviewing my notes from Dr. Ybarra-Fausto and as cultural workers and artists I keep coming back to the

Fellow Story: Tiffany Vega-Gibson
We recently interviewed ILI Year 3 Fellow Tiffany Vega-Gibson about her experience in arts & culture leadership and her hopes for her ILI experience. Please

ILI Alum Event: COVID Stories: When the Hugs Went Away
Check out the new work by #ILIAlumni Jonathan Clark! The Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. Re-Emerges from the Global Pandemic with an Original Virtual Production, COVID Stories:

ILI Alumni Event: An Offering to Unsettle Settlement
“How does one make sense of their own participation in the world, taking into consideration pasts that have formed legacies of colonialism and disenfranchisement? This

Welcoming Year 3 ILI Participants
We are excited to announce the cohort of Fellows for Year 3 of the Intercultural Leadership Institute. Please learn more about each of these extraordinary