Daria Yudacufski

Daria Yudacufski is an arts leader who has amplified the connections between the arts and social justice for over 30 years. In 2006, she was hired to launch Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative at the University of Southern California, where she is executive director. At Visions and Voices, she oversees the production of more than 100 arts and humanities events and projects each year, many created in collaboration with campus and community partners. Prioritizing accessibility, Visions and Voices offers free events, including dance performances, concerts, theatrical productions, film screenings and festivals, lectures, conversations, and workshops for the USC and larger Southern California communities. Visions and Voices also houses Arts in Action, which funds arts-based projects led by USC faculty and students in partnership with community organizations that plant seeds for social change.

Previously, Daria was the director of the Cross Cultural Centers at California State University, Los Angeles, and the programming director of the MultiCultural Center and Women’s Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is co-editor of the book Feminisms in Motion: Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation (2018) and she co-founded and published the independent feminist magazine make/shift for ten years. She is actively involved with Arts Administrators in Higher Education, where she is the executive programming chair. She has served as president of the California Council of Cultural Centers in Higher Education and on the boards of the East Los Angeles Women’s Center and the Center for Japanese Studies and the Asian and Asian American Institute at Cal State L.A., and she is currently on the board at Walden School in Pasadena, CA.

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