Institutions--like the communities they serve--are living systems: formed, sustained, and continually remade by people. This discussion situates contemporary non-profit strategy as a practice of institutional design and imagination: inviting new ways of thinking about, stewarding, and evolving the systems that shape our collective life. Dr. Mariko Silver, President and CEO of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, will reflect on her leadership career across higher education, philanthropy, and the arts to touch on key issues facing the field today. Dr. Silver will be in conversation with Princeton Vice Provost Aly Kassam-Remtulla.
If you are a Princeton affiliate, please register here: link coming. While registration is not required, it is extremely helpful to us in planning and alerting registrants of location changes. Members of the public cannot register through this site but are encouraged to RSVP to gradfutures@princeton.edu.
Dr. Mariko Silver is the twelfth President and CEO of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, beginning her tenure in September 2024. She previously served as President and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation and as the tenth president of Bennington College. In public service, Dr. Silver served in the Obama Administration at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and before that as policy advisor to Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano.
She is Chair of the Board of Trustees of MASS MoCA, a leading contemporary arts museum in Western Massachusetts, and serves on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and Philanthropy New York. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and she sits on the board of the Migration Policy Institute. Dr. Silver holds a BA in history from Yale University, an MSc in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in economic geography from UCLA.
This fireside chat is offered in conjunction with the SPI 415 course
Contemporary Issues in Philanthropy taught by Dr. Aly Kassam-Remtulla, Lecturer in Public Policy and Vice Provost for International Affairs at Princeton. Princeton affiliates and members of the public are warmly welcome to attend this and
other public programming associated with the course.
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