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The Leadership Institute will be led by Paula Manley and Sonya Shah, consultants who specialize in assisting organizations with embracing diversity, developing multiple leaders, and navigating organizational change.
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Paula Manley
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Paula Manley is a consultant, facilitator, and educator helping organizations embrace diversity, engage in participatory planning, navigate executive leadership transitions and develop leaders at all levels. Recent clients include the National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture (NAMAC), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Arts Engine and Sitka Center for Art & Ecology. Since 1997, Paula has developed and presented intensive leadership institutes for staff leaders of arts organizations throughout the U.S. As an experienced nonprofit executive director, program director and board leader, she brings extensive practical knowledge to her work. Paula recently completed a study for NAMAC, Creative Acts: The Media Artist as Organizational Leader, about the experiences of staff leaders who are practicing artists. In her hometown, Portland, Oregon, she curates a street-level art installation space and creates pit-fired ceramics. She holds a Masters of Interdisciplinary Studies from Marylhurst University with an emphasis on Intercultural and Organizational Communication.
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Sonya Shah
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Sonya Shah is Core Faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco where she teaches interdisciplinary studies. For the past 15 years she has worked as a community artist, arts project director, and educator in the United States, United Kingdom, and India. Sonya has collaborated on and co-facilitated intensive leadership institutes for staff leaders of visual arts and media arts organizations since 2007. As a media and literary artist, she has produced community outreach programming for KQED Public Radio and Television in San Francisco; her documentary, Something between Her Hands (2004), is distributed by the National Film Network and has been screened by more than 70 film festivals, conferences and colleges. As a literary artist, her most recent works have been published in Sou’wester and The Rambler, and will soon be published in The Alembic and RiverSedge:11. Sonya was a Fulbright Fellow to India in 1997. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Brown University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film and Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a Jacob Javitz Fellow.
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The Institute gave me a gift beyond measure: my fellow participants... I can rely on them for thoughtful, deliberate insights, suggestions and ideas drawn from and informed by their own triumphs and struggles as leaders in the arts.
– previous attendee
The Alliance's 2010 Leadership Institute is supported in part by grants from The Ford Foundation, The Andrew Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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