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Name Rebecca Cordes Chan
Location Baltimore, MD, USA
What do you do? I am a Program Officer for the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC) National Creative Placemaking Program. Creative Placemaking can be a loaded term, but I think of it as resident-driven process that builds on existing cultural assets. I spend the majority of my time managing LISC’s Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance program. Through a partnership between The Kresge Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts, the program is a pilot intended to provide the creative placemaking field a deeper understanding of how to do arts-based community development well. I am working on specialized technical assistance plans for 16 organizations with the goal of advancing each organization’s ability to lead successful projects that result in positive short- and long-term outcomes for their community. Prior to LISC, I was an arts-based community development practitioner as Station North’s Program Director, then later for a philanthropic organization as their Program Officer. I was named 10 people to watch under 30 by Baltimore Sun in 2014, and was selected to be part of the Baltimore Social Innovation Journal’s cohort the same year. I have an M.S. in Historic Preservation from University of Pennsylvania, and B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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