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Lisa Mount & Cooperating Consultants

Lisa Mount
Lisa Mount
Christine Chopyak
Christine Chopyak

Sage Crump
Sage Crump
Keryl McCord
Keryl McCord
Tabitha Montgomery
Tabitha Montgomery
Sam Morreale
Sam Morreale
Rebecca Mwase
Rebecca Mwase

Ann-Laura Parks
Ann-Laura Parks
Gerard Stropnicky
Gerard Stropnicky

Kayla Kim Votapek
Kayla Kim Votapek
MK Wegmann
MK Wegmann
Estate of Jo Carson
Estate of Jo Carson

Lisa Mount refuses to specialize. As the Director of Artistic Logistics she works as a consultant with non profit arts organizations, and facilitates dynamic meetings for groups large and small. As an independent artist she produces, directs, and appears in contemporary performance work, including the acclaimed community story plays, Headwaters :: Stories From A Goodly Portion Of Beautiful Northeast Georgia, Headwaters: Birth, Death and Places In-Between, and Headwaters: Didja Hear? at the Sautee Nacoochee Center from 2007 – 2013.She toured with the DeLuxe Vaudeville Orchestra as rhythm banjo player from 1994 to 2006. Before embarking on her consulting career in 1997, Lisa served as the Managing Director of 7 Stages theater in Atlanta. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre, with honors, from Lewis and Clark College. She has served as the Board Chair for Alternate ROOTS, the Atlanta Theatre Coalition, and Georgia Shares, a workplace giving campaign. Lisa received the 1996 “Abby” Award from the Atlanta Arts and Business Council for Outstanding Arts Professional, and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians by Georgia Trend Magazine in 2008. In 2009, she was given the first Paula Vaughn Community Arts Lifetime Achievement Award by the Georgia Assembly of Community Arts Agencies. She currently serves on the boards of Alternate ROOTS and the Network of Ensemble Theaters.

Photo courtesy of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts / Triangle Blvd

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Christine Chopyak is a true alchemist who finds creative, fun and engaging approaches to introducing new knowledge and tools with her clients. A learner (and teacher at her core), Chris finds way to make new things feel familiar and build on what you and your teams already know. Using pictures, color, metaphor and stories, Chris turns the humdrum of day-to-day business and evaluation into useful and meaningful outcomes and descriptions of impact. With over 20 years of business planning, strategy consulting, public participation, stakeholder engagement and systems evaluation and analysis, Chris excels in supporting organizational transformation, using best practice methods, strategic illustrations and fun.  One key differentiator for Chris is the use of strategic illustration to mobilize action with learning. While including art and pictures into her projects and processes, she adeptly weaves the way for her clients to focus on what matters most to them in the context of their learning and needs. Chris is the author of Picture Your Business Strategy: Transform Decisions with the Power of Visuals (McGraw-Hill Professional), a go-to-resource for how to plan and execute great business ideas. Using strategic illustration and three simple design principles, Chris inspires the use of pictures, words and metaphors to realize business ideas and address challenges.Chris has worked in in leadership roles in the private and non-profit sectors and is and addicted and determined entrepreneur, owning several businesses including Alchemy: the Art of Transforming Business, Conversation Cloud and Arlosoul: Visualize Innovation. Chris has an M.B.A from the Executive and Professional Education program at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, and is a graduate of the 50 for Colorado executive education program at the LEEDS Business School at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Arlosoul, LLC.

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Sage Crump is a cultural strategist based in in New Orleans and working nationally.  Sage works in deep collaboration with artists, cultural workers and arts organizations to integrate their work into the field of social justice organizing; she is skilled at leveraging art and creative practice for the cultural transformation of systemic oppressions.  Her skills include program management, strategic planning, facilitation, residency design, curriculum development, articulating theories of change and re-imagining touring structures that support local change-making.   Sage’s work with artists, such as Detroit-based Complex Movements, highlights how cultural production supports new strategies that intersect artistic practice, organizing and movement building.She also manages Leveraging A Network for Equity (LANE) for the National Performance Network/Visual Arts Network.  LANE is an eight-year initiative that recognizes arts organizations of color as leaders in the field, through the lens of capitalization. Sage serves on the National Advisory Committee of Women of Color in the Arts, the board of the Center for Media Justice, the board of Alternate ROOTS, and is board vice-chair for Art2Action.

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Keryl McCord is founder and CEO of EQ, The Equity Quotient, a national training and organizational development firm dedicated to supporting arts and culture non profits interested in becoming more just and equitable community partners, with equity, diversity, and inclusion as outcomes of their work. Keryl is a veteran arts manager and administrator with more than thirty years of experience in many facets of the arts. Her background includes serving as managing director of two theater companies, Oakland Ensemble Theater Company, a five-hundred seat AEA theater in downtown Oakland, CA, and Crossroads Theater Company, New Brunswick, NJ, the only black-run LORT theater at the time, and the first such company to receive the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater. Ms. McCord served as the executive director of the League of Chicago Theaters/ League of Chicago Theaters Foundation in 1990. She left Chicago in 1991 to take a post at the National Endowment for the Arts as Assistant Director of Theater Programs, and was appointed Director of Theater Programs in 1993. She served on the executive committee of the National Black Theater Summit on Golden Pond in 1998, convened by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, August Wilson. Subsequently she was tapped to be a founding board member and Senior Vice President of the African Grove Institute for the Arts (AGIA), Newark, NJ, of which Mr. Wilson served as chairman. She remained with AGIA until Mr. Wilson’s passing. Beginning 2009 she was Managing Director for Alternate ROOTS, a nationally recognized, regionally-focused network and service organization for activist artists in the South. Ms. McCord was responsible for day-to-day management, including fundraising and development, and helped steward the organization through a period of unprecedented growth. Over the course of her tenure the organization’s budget grew from $250,000 per year to $1.3 million, and upon her retirement in 2016 she had raised more than $5 million dollars. Ms. McCord has consulted for many nonprofit arts organizations in the areas of institutional development, strategic fundraising, community and cultural organizing, and provides small and large group facilitation. Clients include the Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, WI; Arts Midwest, Minneapolis, MN; National Performance Network, New Orleans, LA; The Center for Performance and Civic Practice, Phoenix, AZ; Junebug Productions, New Orleans, LA; Spirithouse, Durham, NC; Su Teatro, Denver, CO; Myrna Loy Center for the Arts, Helena, MT; Dance/USA, Washington, DC; and the New Brunswick Jazz Project, New Brunswick, NJ.

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Over twenty years, Tabitha Montgomery continues to approach and center her work by demonstrating a deep respect for people, an aptitude for eliciting honest reflection, and the ability to accelerate outcomes with laughter. Within a for-profit context, she has led marketing functions, lines of business, and teams focused on strategic innovation for several Fortune 500 companies including Target and Best Buy. She actively consults on a range of projects and initiatives, while serving as the Executive Director for the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association (PPNA) and Co-Executive Director for the Flourish Placemaking Collective in Minneapolis. Through these various leadership roles, she has amassed a broad, strategic, and tactical skill set that allows her to richly contribute to process, policy, governance, and program cultivation within a private and public context. Tabitha has spent more than two decades tapping into her gifts of management, communication, and visioning to serve a wide array of people, businesses, and organizations.

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Sam Morreale (they/them) is an early career Artistic Producer, Director, and Facilitator who approaches work from a dramaturgical lens rooted in anti-racism and anti-oppression. They are an avid supporter of art for social change and gravitate towards stories and people that uplift the lives of those who have been caught in the margins of society. Their work is to reckon with the controlled archive of the theatrical cannon in hopes to readjust its lens. This readjustment comes through re-centering BIPOC voices in Theater, and Sam works to be a space-making advocate for these voices from within institutions. After receiving a BA from Wesleyan University in Theater and Science Studies, Sam moved on to work with New York Stage and Film at Vassar College, Baltimore Center Stage, and the Theatre Communications Group. Sam understands their career path as one which continues to push institutions to spaces of deep listening in order to ensure that their actions align with social justice and the movement for progressive change.

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Rebecca Mwase (they/she) is a Zimbabwean-American theater and performance artist, creative consultant, facilitator, and cultural organizer working at the intersection of art and social justice. They craft performance, processes, workshops and curriculum that investigate how we create home, a profound sense of belonging: in our bodies, with each other and in our communities large and small. Her work creates spaces to reckon with and release the impacts of oppression while deepening a sense of freedom, connection and belonging. They have supported the change work of Sierra Club and the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts among many others. Rebecca is a board member of the Network of Ensemble Theaters.

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Ann-Laura Parks, CFRE, has more than 20 years experience in helping nonprofit organizations with fundraising, communications, research and evaluation. She graduated cum laude with a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and then worked in graphic design and communications before moving into fundraising through positions at arts and culture and human service organizations. Her wide-ranging skills have led to work on projects for a variety of organizations in education, youth development, science and technology, arts and culture, social services, community development, and more. A member of the Association for Fundraising Professionals, Ann-Laura has been a certified fundraising executive through CFRE International since 2006.

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Gerard Stropnicky explores “Theatre of Place” through Ensemble, Documentary and Community Performance.  A director, writer and actor, he graduated from Northwestern, studied with Alvina Krause, and in 1978 co-founded Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (BTE), where he worked for the next 34 years.  At BTE he acted in well over 100 productions, and he has directed 62 productions to date, at BTE and elsewhere, and written, co-written or devised a score more. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, devised from 200 years of letters to local Bloomsburg newspapers toured nationally, was featured on NPR, and was published in 1998. In rural communities such as Harlan KY, Sautee-Nacoochee GA, and Colquitt GA, as well as in Bloomsburg, he creates and directs large-scale original site-specific productions featuring community casts using local story to celebrate, challenge, and address intractable issues. He is a co-founder of the Network of Ensemble Theaters. He has consulted with many arts organizations and has designed several theatre buildings and institutions. He was named United States Artists Lowe Fellow in Theater Arts in 2010. He is also a 2010 Grandin Award winner for his service to the autism community. With his wife Kathy Baas, and inspired by their son, William, he co-founded CampEmerge, a camp for families touched by autism.

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Kayla Kim Votapek (She/Her/Hers) is a Creative Producer and Consultant who specializes in anti-racism work through the lens of intersectionality. She is currently using the power of storytelling to provoke, challenge, and educate individuals on mixed race/identity and mixed families (i.e.: adoption, second generation, interracial relationships etc.) Kayla received her bachelor’s degree in Theater Arts, Psychology, and Education as a Social Science from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She obtained her master’s degree in Creative Producing at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK. Kayla is currently the Zoom Magician and Administration Assistant for Equity Quotient. Previously, she was the Associate Producer at The Tony Award winning® Crossroads Theatre Company which has allowed her to use her production skills to produce an abundant number of high-quality events. As a producer and arts administrator, she has had the pleasure of working with numerous award-winning organizations and companies such as The Broadway League, The American Theatre Wing, Rutgers University, Theatre Communication Group, TADA! Youth Theatre, Crossroads Theatre Company, New Jersey Theatre Alliance, Art Pride and Improbable.

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MK Wegmann is the recently retired President and CEO of the National Performance Network, which she led for 16 years in its support of national and international touring and commissioning.  As an independent consultant, she works with artist-focused organizations in the performing and visual arts fields. Her presenting experience includes 14 years at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and six years as Managing Director of Junebug Productions. She is one of the founders of the Louisiana Presenters Network, a past Board Chair of Alternate ROOTS, and has served on Presenting Panels for the NEA, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Mississippi Arts Commission, and others. Among her consulting clients are Chamber Music America’s Rural Residency program, Urban Bush Women, and the Alabama Dance Council.

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The Estate of Jo Carson. Jo was the author of nine books including Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet which is taught widely in Appalachian Literature courses. In 2008, TCG published Spider Speculations: A Physics and Biophysics of Storytelling, which considers how stories work in our bodies and our lives. Liars, Thieves, and Other Sinners on the Bench is a collection of Jo’s favorite material from the community story plays she wrote, published by TCG in 2009. Jo won five national awards for her traditional plays (including the Kesselring Prize for Daytrips) and these plays have been produced widely in this country, including at Hartford Stage Company, the Women’s Project in NYC and the Los Angeles Theatre Center. In addition to the first two Headwaters scripts, Jo also wrote more than 30 plays for a variety of communities in this country from 1992 to 2012. Deep knowledge of Jo’s how-to’s of story collecting and writing for communities are available as a consulting service from Artistic Logistics.

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