Inspiring Creativity: 35 Years of the MacArthur Fellows Program
Moderated by Cecilia Conrad
Featuring Ai-Jen Poo & Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Tuesday, Jan 12, 2016
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Speakers
Ai-Jen Poo
Ai-Jen Poo is the Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Co-director of the Caring Across Generations campaign. A 2014 MacArthur Fellow, her compelling vision of the value of home-based care work is transforming the landscape of working conditions and labor standards for domestic or private-household workers all while lifting up the interdependence between care providers and recipients of care. Combining a deep understanding of the complex tangle of human relations around domestic work with keen strategic skills, Poo has created a vibrant, worker-led labor movement and spearheaded successful legislative campaigns at the national and international levels.
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is a 2001 MacArthur Fellow and artist working across media to create works that challenge our notions of the political and the cultural. He is recognized for his activist-inspired public art, as well as collaborative research with scientists and engineers. His work currently regards the inversion of utopia, the fabrication of war, water access and the carbon cycle. He is professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University.
Cecilia Conrad
Cecilia Conrad is a Managing Director at the MacArthur Foundation, leading the MacArthur Fellows Program. Before joining the foundation in January 2013, she had a distinguished career as both a professor and an administrator at Pomona College, Claremont, CA. She previously served on the faculties of Barnard College and Duke University. She was also an economist at the Federal Trade Commission and a visiting scholar at The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
