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I am grateful to be considered by my colleagues as an Emerging Professionals Candidate to serve on the College Art Association’s Board of Directors. The greatest social contribution of CAA is our organization’s capacity to prioritize social engagement, accessibility, and institutional ethics in an increasingly digital yet disconnected age, defined by a political polarity that perceives art and social practice as a threat. In the face of such disconnect, I am committed to prioritizing our community of over fourteen thousand members with connection-based and equity-driven practices. It is to our community that I owe so much, and to our community that I hope to be able to serve with generosity as a member of the Board.

As a scholar and educator, it is the greatest service to contribute to the generative ecosystem of possibility that lives at the heart of visual studies. The call to care through education and connection fostered by art informs the future of the role of CAA within our society at large. The perspectives that I have gained through a variety of service positions over the course of my early career—among them, co-organizing the first BIPOC Employee Resource Group at the Minneapolis Institute of Art; lobbying for higher education issues in Washington, D.C. as a representative of the Minnesota Student Association, and later, arts access legislation as a member of the Board of Directors for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts; and platforming rising arts writers through my position as Exhibition Reviews Editor for Panorama, the Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, a CAA-affiliated society—have equipped me well to advocate for the future of CAA and our community.

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