Rosie’s House CEO Chosen for National Arts Strategies Program
Becky Ballard, CEO at Rosie’s House, A Music Academy for Children, has been selected as the only Arizona representative for the fourth and final class of National Arts Strategies’ Chief Executive Program. The Chief Executive Program: Community and Culture brings together an international cohort of 50 CEOs who are working to lead change in their organizations, communities and the cultural field.
The selected executives come from institutions of all sizes and disciplines. They are united by the presence of deep community roots and are working on initiatives such as creating new narratives on rural culture and supporting, advancing and developing Pacific Island media content – and more.
Over the next year, these executives will be supported in their work through the introduction of different approaches from outside their sector, a range of analytical frameworks and an international, cross-disciplinary network of allies and collaborators. They will travel to Harvard Business School and University of Michigan Ross School of Business, where they will be introduced to tools they can use year after year to help put their ideas into action.
Participants in the program were selected through a competitive recruitment process to identify 50 top cultural leaders from around the world whose organizations work closely with communities, as defined by the applicants. The leaders chosen represent a wide range of cultural forms, perspectives and experience levels. They come from across the country as well as from Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Australia and Colombia.
Rosie’s House: A Music Academy for Children is a free music academy for children facing economic adversity in inner-city Phoenix. It serves 500 youth annually with creative youth-development programming. It is a certified institutional member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education, a member of Local First Arizona, an institutional member of Arizona Citizens for the Arts, and a current finalist in the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award.
