Salvador Acevedo’s Board Super Power!
Creativity Explored has seven new Board members! This spring we’ll be highlighting the super powers and experience they’re bringing to Creativity Explored to help us reach our goals. Meet the first in our series: Salvador Acevedo!
About Salvador: Salvador Acevedo has over 20 years of experience helping organizations link their design and innovation strategies with various cultures within the US. Being bilingual and bicultural gives him the ability to recognize the cultural markers that signal inclusion. He is professionally invested in helping organizations increase diversity, deepen inclusion, and advance equity in a broad range of fields from arts and culture to informal education and urban planning. Salvador is founding faculty of the Leaders of Color Network by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF). He’s also an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco in the Museum Studies graduate program and he is a TED Talk speaker with the talk “I Am Mestizo.”
“I joined CE’s Board because its artists’ work is one of the most honest, creative, deep, and impactful art in the city.”
Why Salvador Joined CE’s Board: “I joined CE’s Board because its artists' work is one of the most honest, creative, deep, and impactful art in the city, in my opinion. I'll be happy to do anything I can to support its mission and impact on the community.”
Salvador’s Favorite CE Artist: “My favorite CE artist is all of them, but I have a special inkling for Bertha Otoya.”
Salvador’s Super Power: Salvador Acevedo’s deep experience in person-centered thinking - his marketing firm specializes in this approach - will help Creativity Explored reach its person-centered thinking goals. Person-centered thinking focuses on what a person with disabilities can do and supports their personal aspirations, needs, values, and decision-making.