Access Improvement
Access Improvement
Lightning Rod Access Avengers
Lynne Bertalmio: Retired Director Stillwater Public Library; Cristeta Boarini: 826 MSP Program Director; Craig Dunn: Arts Accessibility Consultant; Tricia Heuring: Public Functionary Executive Director; Alejandra Iannone: Sparkle Theatricals Creative Co-Director; Wu Chen Khoo: Technical Tools of the Trade Stage Technical Designer and Director; Wendy Lane: Retired Human Resources Professional; Alejandra Pelinka: City of Bloomington Director of Creative Placemaking; Tommy Sar: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Coordinator of Community Programs; Lue Vang: McKnight Foundation Accountant; Christal Moose: Native Pride Productions Inc Manager; Adaobi Okolue: Twin Cities Media Alliance Executive Director; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Community Education Adult and Youth Programs Coordinator; Deanna StandingCloud: New Native Theatre; Sara Wilson: Gislason and Hunter LLP Attorney; Robyn Cline: City of Savage Economic Development Commissioner
Brighton McCormick: Artistic, Program Development, Education; Jaime Gjerdingen: Artistic, Volunteerism, Accessibility/Disability Access; Naomi Cohn: Organizational Development / Planning, Fundraising, Artistic; Raymond Luczak: Artistic, Accessibility/Disability Access, Marketing/Audience Development; Terryann Nash: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Education, Program Development; Tim Cooper: Artistic, Computer Systems / Web Design, Finance; Zoe Koenig: Artistic, General Management/ Administration/ Support, Program Development.
ACHF Arts Access
Lightning Rod will increase scope and deepen relationships with artists and community partners with disabilities. Lightning Rod's ADA Access Plan will be evaluated twice, and launched forward so that tangible action will be planned in detail to achieve access standards and goals. The Access Avengers and community partners that they invite will review our ADA Access Plan and observe our programming in order to produce a report and recommendations. The Lightning Rod Advisory Council will review the report and recommendations, and solicit feedback on how they can best enact reform and support future efforts.
1) one meeting between the Avengers and artistic leadership in which the Avengers asked us to think more deeply about how we make the programming inaccessible to our own selves, making it very hard to turn around and focus on accessibility for the artists and audiences we engage -- this was a huge wake up call -- and 2) detailed written evaluation of our programmatic and organizational practices.