Caron Atlas

Caron Atlas is a cultural organizer working to support and stimulate arts, media, and culture as an integral part of social change and civic participation. She directs the Arts & Democracy Project of State Voices and the Arts & Community Change Initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development. She is also a consultant to Fractured Atlas and the Ford Foundation, and teaches in New York University’s Art and Public Policy program. Caron was the founding director of the American Festival Project, a national coalition of activist artists; and she also previously worked with National Voice, Animating Democracy, and Appalshop.