Symposium Keynote: Lisa Yancey
Co-Presented with Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
Thursday, May 15, 2025
11:00am – 1:30pm
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You:
Single Tickets: $15 – $30
Symposium Pass: $150 – $300
Lisa Yancey is the president of Yancey Consulting, co-founder of The We’s Match, and the creator of THE DASH. Drawing from her expertise in organizational and cultural strategy and justice-based systems change, Lisa will examine cultural strategy as a tool for a thriving Pittsburgh. She will highlight the importance of intergenerational and cross-industry cultural strategy, distinguish arts from culture, and provide concrete examples of where cultural strategy was the catalyst for thriving cities and businesses.
This event is part of Owning Our Future: A Symposium on BIPOC Institutional Ownership.
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Sunday, May 18, 2025
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $15 – $30
- ABOUT THE KEYNOTE
- About Owning Our Future Symposium
Lisa Yancey is the president of Yancey Consulting, co-founder of The We’s Match, and the creator of THE DASH. She is a writer, cultural strategist, visionary, builder, adjunct professor, and entrepreneur. Lisa has led a strategic consulting practice for over 23 years called Yancey Consulting (YC). YC specializes in systems analysis, cultural interventions, and generational forecasting to advance its mission of transformation toward just, equitable, and thriving societies. Lisa is the co-founder of The We’s Match, a social impact enterprise committed to helping women entrepreneurs scale their businesses while prioritizing their well-being.
KST is leading a groundbreaking national symposium that aims to reshape the future of accessible, equitable cultural spaces owned and anchored by BIPOC communities.
Guided by our vision “Owning Our Future. Thriving Where We Live.,” this three-day gathering in May 2025 serves as a platform to catalyze a critical national dialogue and chart a path forward.
Collaborating with an advisory committee of national and local colleagues, KST curates a cross-industry program that features discussions, performances, and celebrations with leaders in art, activism, urban planning, philanthropy, and government. Together we imagine new financial, operational, and physical structures for BIPOC-owned arts spaces, addressing the structural inequities that the pandemic laid bare.
The symposium spotlights organizations employing new strategies to safeguard culture in their communities. It engages forward-thinking stakeholders invested in emergent models. Look forward to thought-provoking panel sessions, inspiring keynote addresses, and dynamic performances by Pittsburgh and national artists.