TODD LESTER

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Todd Lester is an artist and cultural producer.  He has worked in leadership, advocacy and strategic planning roles at Reporters sans frontiers, Queer Art Mentorship, Astraea Lesbian Justice Foundation, and most recently as the Executive Director of the Global Arts Corps, an organization that creates theatre to advance reconciliation in societies emerging from violent conflict. He founded freeDimensional, an organization that helps artists and activists-in-distress by providing safe haven in artist residencies. He serves as a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute where he’s building an incubator to support collaborations between artists and policymakers broadly, while also developing a new project in the center of São Paulo called Lanchonete.org.

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Global Arts Corps
Lanchonete.org
Arts-Policy Incubator
World Policy Institute
freeDimensional
Sangam House
Guapamacátaro Center for Art & Ecology
Gardarev Center
PIVÔ
Archipelago Books
Kristiania writers’ collective

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