In addition to his role as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and MICA, Marcus Civin is an interdisciplinary artist and critic with a focus on community engagement, performance, sculpture, and drawing. While at Brown, he was a founder of New Urban Arts and served as the organization’s first program director. In addition to exhibiting solo and collaborative work, he has published widely and has developed and organized exhibitions, festivals, and panel discussions. At MICA, he has taught in Curatorial Practice, Art History, and Foundation.Marcus holds an AB in Theater from Brown and an MFA in Art from University of California, Irvine.

Jason is the executive director of Atlas: DIY, a non-profit in Brooklyn that works with immigrant youth to unlock access to legal services, learning opportunities, and leadership development in a space owned, run, and governed by the youth themselves. Jason was an early artist-mentor at New Urban Arts when he was a student at RISD and also served as New Urban Arts’ Executive Director for five years, leaving in 2013 to become the Director of Education at the Queens Museum. Jason holds a BFA in painting from RISD and a MPA from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.

Zachary is the executive director of 826DC, the Washington, DC chapter of 826 National, the award-winning youth writing program founded by Nínive Clements Calegari and Dave Eggers of McSweeney’s. As an undergraduate at Brown, Zach volunteered as an artist-mentor at New Urban Arts. Since then, he has served as the Director of Early Learning at Sitar Arts Center and led youth-oriented programming in collaboration with DC-based organizations including the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project and Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. His research work through Harvard Project Zero focuses on the intersection of youth’s creative productions and digital media, and has been published in Creativity Research Journal. He holds an EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an AB in American Literature and Visual Arts from Brown, and certification in non-profit management from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

Thuy-Mai holds a Healthy Communities fellowship from the Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO). As a FCYO Fellow she works with FEEST Seattle, a youth-run dinner program that engages young people at two high schools on issues of civic and social justice, food security, cultural expression, and community development. After serving for two years as a volunteer artist-mentor at New Urban Arts, she helped pilot the organization’s A Life After School (ALAS) post-secondary advising program as the first ALAS mentor. She also served for two years in the Americorps College Advising Corps. At Brown, she received an AB in Ethnic Studies.

Adrienne is the Director of Grants to Organization at the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. During high school, Adrienne was a frequent participant in New Urban Arts’ programs, making her both an alumni and a funder of the organization. She is also a photographer whose has exhibited in Worcester, MA, Providence, New York City. Before joining the staff of RISCA, Adrienne worked at RISD, the Manton Avenue Project, and Moses Brown School. She holds BA in Film Studies and Photography and an MPA, both from Clark University in Worcester.