Land Acknowledgement: Land of the Coast Salish Peoples, specifically the Duwamish Tribe (Dkhw Duw’Absh) (Seattle, WA)
Biography
Megan Kiskaddon is the Executive Director of On the Boards in Seattle, Washington. Previously, she led the Education and Community Engagement division at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where she oversaw artist driven, socially engaged, and educationally focused initiatives. She has had the privilege of working with contemporary performers including Rashaad Newsome, Mika Tajima/New Humans, My Barbarian, and Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, and she organized the Anna Halprin exhibition and performance for the 2017 Venice Biennale. Megan has spoken at Stanford, YBCA, APAP and ODC, and has served as a panelist for the San Francisco Arts Commission and is also an IMLS grant peer reviewer.
She served for several years on the Advisory Board for Emerging Arts Professionals, an equity-centered organization focused on empowerment and leadership in the arts. She was a member of Peggy Phelan and Stanford University’s DEI thinktank “Art Strategies Lab,” and San Francisco’s city-wide Racial Equity in the Arts working group.
Megan holds a BA in Sociology from Mills College, an MA from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University, and is an alumna of the NextGen Getty Leadership Institute for executive education.
Photo by Riva Keller
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