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Interdependence Movement Executive Committee
Members of the Executive Committee:
 Jacqueline Z. Davis, Chairperson, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
As Executive Director of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center JACQUELINE Z. DAVIS has general supervisory responsibilities for the Music, Dance, Theatre, and Recorded Sound research divisions and the complementary circulating division. She oversees exhibitions in the Center's two galleries and more than 200 public programs annually, including performances and lectures. Formerly, Ms. Davis was Director of the Lied Center of Kansas at the University of Kansas. Serving a dual role of Artistic Producer and Executive Director, she had general supervisory responsibility for the facility as well as booking performances including national and international theatre, fund-raising, caretaking of artists, and supervising staff. She recently completed a two-year term as President of the University of Kansas Theatre Advisory Board. Prior to her activities in the artistic sector, Ms. Davis served as a staff assistant in the Office of Senator Edward Kennedy. In 2003, 2007 and 2012, Ms. Davis was appointed to three-year terms as a Tony Award nominator. In 2004, she assisted in the creation of the Imagine '04 Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas, designed to support civic engagement through the arts for which she and her colleagues received an Obie Award. In May, 2004, Ms. Davis was named a Chevalier of Arts and Letters by the Minister of Culture of France. In 2004, she was named Chevalier for Les Arts et Lettres by the French government. She is the recipient of the New York Women's Agenda's Galaxy Award and received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Kansas. In 2011, she received the Global Interdependence Prize in New York for her work in engendering communication across cultures through the performing arts. In 2012, she received the HT Chen Dance Company Award for her commitment to the field of Dance. In May, 2012, she became a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School's Executive Leadership Program.
 David Baile, ISPA
David Baile is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) based in New York. Prior to joining ISPA in 2007, David enjoyed a 20 year career in the arts in Toronto in both management and consulting roles and in a variety of disciplines including contemporary dance, theatre, literary arts and music. For the 7 years prior to ISPA, David was the General Manager of Opera Atelier, an internationally renowned company noted for its period productions of baroque opera/ballet. Prior to this appointment, David was the Managing Director of Factory Theatre. In addition to Factory Theatre, David has enjoyed positions as the General Manager of Theatre Passe Muraille and as Executive Director of the Performing Arts Development Fund. Past consulting clients in Toronto include Dancemakers, Theatre Centre, Metropolitan Toronto Department of Culture, The Writer's Trust, PEN Canada, Kensington Carnival, Caravan Stage Company and Artistic Fraud, RCA Theatre (St. John's, NF). He holds an Honours B.A. in Urban Development from the University of Western Ontario. In addition to his professional involvement in the arts, David is also very active with volunteer positions including past membership on the Mayor's Round Table on Arts and Culture (Toronto) and positions on the Board of the Toronto Arts Council (Chair of the Large Institutions Committee), Opera.ca (Treasurer) and OPERA America. Currently David serves on the Advisory Board for the Master of Arts Management Program at Carnegie Mellon University.
 Benjamin R. Barber, Interdependence Movement
Benjamin R. Barber is a Senior Research Scholar at The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, President and Founder of the Interdependence Movement, and Walt Whitman Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Rutgers University. An internationally renowned political theorist, Dr. Barber brings an abiding concern for democracy and citizenship to issues of politics, globalization, culture and education in America and abroad. He consults regularly with political and civic leaders in the U.S. (President Clinton, Howard Dean) and around the world. Benjamin Barber's 17 books include the classic Strong Democracy (1984); the international best-seller Jihad vs. McWorld (1995) and most recently Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (2007). His upcoming book, If Mayors Ruled the World, will be published by Yale University Press in 2013. Barber's honors include a knighthood (Palmes Academiques/Chevalier) from the French Government (2001), the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin (2001) and the John Dewey Award (2003). He has also been awarded Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Social Science Research Fellowships, honorary doctorates from Grinnell College, Monmouth University and Connecticut College, and has held the chair of American Civilization at the École des Hautes Études in Paris. He holds a certificate from the LSE and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
 Leah Barber, Interdependence Movement
Leah Barber is an artist who has enjoyed a long and varied career as a performer, choreographer, and educator. A passionate and extraordinarily expressive dancer, her work, described by Jennifer Dunning of the New York Times as "compelling" and "haunting", is known for its subtle beauty and raw intimacy. Her extensive experience in Off Broadway and regional theater, having choreographed over 30 plays, musicals and opera, includes the world premieres of Beth Henley's L-Play and Wendy Kesselman's The Last Bridge.. In 2000 she was awarded a rare individual artist fellowship in choreography from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Barber founded LKB Dance in 1999. Barber's teaching career includes six years as a Teaching Artist with Lincoln Center Institute; artist residencies in American colleges and conservatories; and 15 years on the faculties of Dance and Theater Arts at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School for the Arts.
 Rachel Cooper, Asia Society
Rachel Cooper joined Asia Society in 1993 and serves as the Director for Cultural Programs and Performing Arts. She has presented over 300 performances over her tenure at the Asia Socitey. She has extensive experience in the producing and presenting traditional and contemporary Asian and Asian-American performing arts and development of innovative cultural programming strategies. Here interests include cultural diplomacy and exchange, cross-platform programming, commissioning of new work. Current projects include Asia Society's on-going initiatives Creative Voices of Muslim Asia and the Great Debates: Traditions and Forms (exploring systems of debates and discourse across cultures and religions) She co-organized Muslim Voices: Arts and Ideas, a 10-day festival in partnership with the Brooklyn Academy of Music and New York University's Center for Dialogues. She co-authored the 2011 Asia Society report Making a Difference through the Arts: Strengthening America's Links with Muslim Communities in Asia. Rachel did her undergraduate and graduate work at UCLA in Ethnic Arts and Dance Ethnology. She lived in Indonesia from 1983-89. Prior to joining Asia Society, Ms. Cooper was the Associate Director of the UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance and helped implement the Asia Pacific Performance Exchange project. She directed the Festival of Indonesia In Performance program, which brought more than 200 performing artists from Indonesia to venues across the United States. Cooper's work was recognized with a Global Citizen Diplomacy Award in 2011 and Dawson Award for Sustained Achievement in Performing Arts Programmatic Excellence from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), an 'Izzy' (Isadora Duncan) award for the Festival of Indonesia In Performance, and a MAP grant for choreography from the Rockefeller Foundation. Ms. Cooper is the co-founder and former director of the San Francisco-based Balinese music and dance company, Gamelan Sekar Jaya.
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