SAGE CRUMP

Sage Crump is a culture strategist, coach, artist and movement facilitator who expands and deepens the relationship between the cultural sector and social justice organizing. Based in New Orleans but working nationally, she believes in leveraging art, creative practice, and the cultural sector to transform systemic oppressions Sage is a member of Complex Movements, a Detroit-based artist collective whose interdisciplinary work supports local and translocal visionary organizing. She is principal and co-founder of The Kinfolk Effect (TKE) with artist muthi reed.

TKE is an incubation space for multimedia interdisciplinary artwork that examines the movement of Blackness through time and space. She has recently completed a 10 year initiative on the development of liberatory infrastructure and is the inaugural Director of racial justice and movement building at the National Performance Network. Sage is a former co-director of the Emergent Strategies Ideation Institute and former member of LeftRoots.  She is a member of the Guild of Future Architects, Women of Color in the Arts, and a board member with the Center for Cultural Innovation, and Mark-n-Sparks. Sage’s work incorporates movement history, complex sciences, emergent strategy and creative practice to imagine the world we want to live in and build strategies and practices that will get us there.

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