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Kristine Leslie

Advisory Council Member
(she/they)

Kristine Leslie is a socially engaged artist, educator, and administrator. As Chief Transformation Officer of her practice, Consult with Kristine, she supports communities and organizations in capacity, community, coalition, and field building through pedagogy, facilitation, consulting, and research. Kristine holds degrees in Deaf Studies, Sociology, and English-Writing and has extensive experience in the non-profit arts sector, advocacy, and education, with a focus on creative activism and healing justice. Kristine understands arts as behavior, infrastructure, and environment. She believes that arts work is care work is access work and that this work is essential to our individual and communal wellbeing. Her core values are Rest as Resistance, Joy as Resilience, and Justice as Collective Care.