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Kiley Arroyo

Executive director, Cultural Strategies Council, United States of America

Kiley Arroyo is the executive director of the Cultural Strategies Council (CSC), a vehicle for interdisciplinary research, strategy, and collaborative learning toward realizing a more just and generative world. Over the past 20 years, she has led a diverse portfolio of projects in partnership with foundations, government agencies, NGOs, academic institutions, and the private sector across the United States and internationally. The CSC's novel approach enables new relationships, exchanges, critical insights, and integrated solutions to emerge, accelerating sustainable progress on our most complex social issues. Before founding the CSC in 2008, Kiley was a teaching artist, funder, strategist, and policymaker at Demos, UNESCO, and McKinsey & Company. She is an adjunct professor at multiple universities, leading courses on transformational change, cultural rights, racial justice, collaborative leadership, and participatory policymaking. Her work has been published widely, and she has advanced training in justice-centered facilitation, complexity theory, embodied social justice, and agroecology. Kiley is a Fellow of Salzburg Global, the Just Economy Institute, and the Fulbright Specialist Program. Kiley has a bachelor's degree in art and architectural history and a master's in cultural policy and management.

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