Mary Ann DeVlieg is an independent consultant, conference curator and project grant evaluator. For over a decade she assisted at-risk artists to access protection and relocation to safety. With an M.A. in European Cultural Policy and Management, she is currently a PhD candidate critiquing the gap between policy and practice in arts and migration policies, linked to the rights of artists impacted by displacement. In addition to co-founding the Roberto Cimetta Fund for Arts Mobility in the Mediterranean and founding On-the-Move Artists Mobility Resource, she co-founded of IARA (International Arts Rights Advisors), founded the EU working group, Arts-Rights-Justice; was Co-Director at freeDimensional (2013-2015); has advised the Safe Havens conferences since 2013, and is a co-founder of the Arts-Rights-Justice Academy, University of Hildesheim. She was Secretary General of IETM, the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts, from 1994 to 2013.