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2023 AMMC Houston Program Book

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Dr. Zannie Voss | The Intersection of Workforce Diversity, Psychological Safety, and Individual Contributions

Dr. Zannie Voss, Ph.D. Director of SMU DataArts and Professor of Arts Management in SMUs School of the Arts and Cox School of Business, will discuss the importance of having diverse employees and, importantly, ensuring that we all have a sense of psychological safety and belonging, in our work environments. She will discuss how the data show that in addition to having a positive impact on an organization's workforce, increasing employee diversity has a significant positive influence on individual contributions. Dr. Voss will also discuss trends in membership and individual contributions as they relate to SMU DataArts' research into workforce development.

Zannie Giraud Voss, Ph.D. is Director of SMU DataArts, as well as Professor of Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship in the Meadows School of the Arts and the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. Prior to joining the SMU faculty, she was a professor at Duke University in Theatre Studies and the Fuqua School of Business. At Duke, she also served as producing director of Theater Previews, developing and co-producing over a dozen new plays and musicals, two of which transferred to Broadway. Before transitioning to academia, Zannie served as managing director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, associate manager of the Alley Theatre, and assistant director of Audience Development at the Mark Taper Forum. She has served as a consultant for the Irvine Foundation, Theatre Development Fund, Philadelphia Theatre Initiative/Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Theatre Communications Group, co-authoring Theatre Facts since 1998. She earned her doctorate at Aix-Marseille III Graduate School of Management, IAE, France.

Niiobli Armah IV | The Future is Now

As museum membership professionals, we sit in a powerful place at the nexus of our members and our organization. As stewards of these communities, we have the opportunity and perhaps responsibility to positively shift and influence culture in regards to equity, access and inclusion. Despite this inherent power, the path forward isn’t always clear and easy. What is certain is that having these sometimes difficult (but necessary) discussions about power, privilege, race, class and diversity in all its forms, is no longer optional: cultural institutions must engage and move forward or become irrelevant.
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Niiobli Armah IV, founder of Houston-based social change organization We-Collab, will discuss the opportunities and challenges we face in cultural organizations in regards to equity and inclusion. He’ll focus on a discussion of income disparity, lack of representation, and resistance or misunderstandings that stymy changes to the status quo of our member communities and organizations. He’ll illuminate what audiences we might be excluding and importantly, discuss how to change that dynamic.

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2023 AMMC HOUSTON KEYNOTES​

2023 AMMC HOUSTON KEYNOTES