Alicia Anstead NF '08

Alicia Anstead NF '08

Associate Director for Programming and Communications; Producer, ARTS FIRST
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Alicia Anstead is a writer, editor, producer and educator. In addition to heading up programming for artist engagement with students, she is the producer of the annual ARTS FIRST Festival and an instructor in the journalism program at Harvard University Extension School. She is a contributing producer, editor, storytelling coach and strategist for APAP|NYC, the largest annual conference of performing arts professionals. She was previously executive editor of Inside Arts, the magazine for the Association of Performing Arts Professionals in Washington, DC, and of The Writer magazine in Boston. As an arts reporter at the Bangor Daily News in Maine, she won many awards for her writing. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, The Harvard Gazette, Chamber Music Magazine and Art New England. She has been an arts contributor to The Callie Crossley Show and Under the Radar with Callie Crossley on WGBH in Boston and NPR's Morning Edition. An English department graduate of American University (B.A.) and the University of Maine (M.A.), Alicia focused her academic work on Black literature, Shakespeare and women's literature. She has been a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University and NEA arts editors program at Duke University. She has been a consultant for the Sphinx Organization, where she co-produced the first two SphinxCon conferences on diversity in the arts, the Boston Book Festival, Word Festival, Downeast Speaks (ISLE Theater Company), Shakespeare in Stonington at Opera House Arts, Sister Cities International and the National Archives Foundation. Alicia was born and raised in Southeast, Washington, DC and is a resident of Maine.

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