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The Program Director & Manager Forum is an action-oriented, working group focused on sharing best programmatic tactics, strategies, and practices within the field. These sessions are aimed at Program Directors, Program Managers, Site Directors, but may be useful and applicable to other program decision makers and Teaching Artists.  

As Program Directors & Managers, your position within an organization is unique in that you interface with many stakeholders within the program, whether that be students, families, teaching artists, and executive staff. Some of you may also deal with community partners, donors, and boards.  

These sessions are intended to create a network of Program Directors and share out best practices collectively. Sessions will be a hybrid of some panel discussions and group discussions.

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Paloma Ramos

Firebird Fellowship Manager, Academy for Impact through Music

Facilitated by Paloma Ramos

Paloma Ramos is an accomplished Arts Administrator who specializes in the design and management of music education programs with a social justice framework. For over a decade she worked at Harmony Project, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit providing free instruments and music lessons to youth in under-resourced communities. As Chief Program Officer, she led its growth from 800 to over 3500 students in partnership with several school districts and community organizations. She is currently the Firebird Fellowship Manager at Academy for Impact through Music, an International fellowship program for Teaching Artists working in educational programs for social impact.

Paloma has been playing the violin since she was 3 years old, starting with the Suzuki method. She studied Cultural Anthropology and Latin American Studies as an undergraduate at Northwestern University.

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