ADVISORY BOARD
- Michele Anderson: Rural Program Director of Springboard for the Arts
- Jennifer Armstrong: Director of Community Arts Development Programs for the Illinois Arts Council
- Caron Atlas: Director of the Arts & Democracy Project and co-director of the New York Naturally Occurring Cultural District Working Group
- Polly Atwell: Fiction Writer, Professor of English at Coastal California University
- Theresa Cameron: Local Arts Agency Services Program Manager of Americans for the Arts
- Dr. Barbara Ching: writer, editor and Chair of the Department of English at Iowa State University
- Dudley Cocke: teacher, writer, media producer, and Director of Roadside Theater
- Maryo Gard Ewell: Community Arts Development consultant
- Dr. John Fenn: Assistant Professor and Media Management Coordinator of the Arts and Administration Program at the University of Oregon
- Matthew Glassman: Core-Actor and Co-Director of Double Edge Theatre
- Lance Ledbetter: Founder of the Dust-to-Digital record label
- Dr. J. Michael Luster: Director of the Arkansas Folklife Program
- Nikiko Masumoto: Peach farmer, writer, and performance artist
- Donna Neuwirth and Jay Salinas: Directors of The Wormfarm Institute
- Mimi Pickering: filmmaker and producer at Appalshop, and Director of Appalshop’s Community Media Initiative
- Dr. Lisa R. Pruitt: professor of law in the Martin Luther King, Jr., School of Law at the University of California, Davis; editor of the Legal Ruralism blog
- Jesikah Maria Ross: educator, mediamaker, community cultural development practitioner, and Director of The Art of Regional Change at University of California, Davis
- Nathan Salsburg: musician, curator of The Alan Lomax Collection at The Association of Cultural Equity
- Chris Sauter: writer, editor and visual artist
- Richard Saxton: Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, and Director of the M12 art collective
- Jesse Vogler: installation artist, Director of the Institute of Marking and Measuring, Visiting Professor at the Sam Fox School for Design and the Visual Arts, Washington University in Saint Louis
