AMS is pleased to welcome our newest Lynette A. Turner Pathways to Consulting Fellow Twi McCallum. Twi will be joining our team from October 28th to January 17th.
Twi is an art administrator & advocate from Baltimore, MD. She is a former sound designer, with design credits for Broadway, several off-Broadway and regional theaters, as well as television, film, and audiobooks for companies like HBO, Marvel, STARZ, and Audible. While working in audio and simultaneously studying at Yale University’s David Geffen School of Drama, she served several arts nonprofits such as SoundGirls and co-founded/co-chaired Design Action from 2020-2022. While serving Design Action, she developed a monthly workshop series with guest facilitators on topics including understanding contracts for designers and the importance of entertainment unions, as well as fundraising $50k to disburse microgrants to the member community. After retiring from her sound design career, she relocated back to her hometown of Baltimore and worked as Community Engagement Manager at Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, overseeing a vast portfolio of grantmaking programs and workforce development initiatives.
Twi is excited to join AMS Planning & Research, especially to build new skills in data analysis, consulting, and supporting a team that does large scale work across the national arts ecosystem.
AMS’s first-in-the-field program was initiated in 2019 to help support and escalate involvement of individuals from groups that have been underrepresented in the arts and culture consulting field. Fellowships are intended to provide practical training and play a role in nurturing leadership by expanding and fostering inclusiveness within the discipline of arts and culture consulting.
Program participants will be mentored by recognized sector leaders and engage in valuable training and dialogue with a professional staff that collectively has decades of expertise in the arts and culture arena. Experience at AMS may play a role in providing a competitive advantage when fellows who have been engaged in the program are looking for employment in the arts and culture sector.
