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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

ILI Zines Now Online!
Suzy González and César Ramos – ILI Fellows from Year 2 – teamed up to lead the creation of zines from each of the three

Crisis Relief Grants for Arts & Culture Leaders
ILI Partners Announce $5 Million Crisis Relief Grants for Arts & Culture Leaders Five organizations receive funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to re-grant

JUNETEENTH 2020: Sound & Visual Meditation
SPECIAL ONLINE PRESENTATION: SUPER BLUES color Lux bath New work from ILI Alum muthi reed. Presented on this year’s Juneteenth celebration of freedom and resilience, Scribe

Climate Justice Circle & Strategy Clinic – 6/25/20
ILI Yr 2 Alum and Co-Facilitator Joe Tolbert Jr. organizes Circles & Strategy Clinics through Peoples Hub. How can we confront climate-related injustices while we

ILI: The Beautiful Journey
by ILI Fellow Alum Theo E.J. WilsonGet a first-hand perspective on the ILI experience from this Year 2 ILI Fellow alum. “Adventure often announces itself

A Message to the ILI Community in Challenging Times
Staying Healthy, Secure & Connected During this rapidly changing time, the Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) Partners & Facilitators want to share important information related to

Alum Update: Robert Martinez
Robert Martinez is an ILI Fellow Alum from 2018/19. We caught up with him to hear about what he’s doing now. What have you been working

Alum Update: Christopher D. Sims
As the new year proceeds, and as I look towards a year of arts, culture, and all that those things encompass, I move forward knowing