Facilitator(s): Albert Martínez-Fernández, Budget Manager, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Explore how you can use design thinking to effectively promote EDI in your orchestra’s community engagement programs. Participants will discuss the common approaches used in designing and executing community engagement programs in arts organizations, assess their limitations in achieving EDI progress, and examine how design thinking can help address these shortcomings.

Through a "Community Co-Designed Approach," a new framework that leverages design thinking and user-centered methodologies, you will better understand and address the unique needs and values of diverse communities. This innovative approach will help you integrate EDI principles into your community engagement initiatives more effectively.

Join colleagues for a conversation that inspires change and guides orchestras towards inclusive, impactful, and meaningful community engagement work.