LOS ANGELES: Shakespeare Heart of Los Angeles (SCLA) has named Amanda Susskind to be the corporate’s managing director, succeeding Dana P. Goland within the function, and becoming a member of a management crew that features inventive director Ben Donenberg. Susskind is the previous president of Train Democracy, a nationwide civic schooling supplier, and earlier than that was the Los Angeles regional director of the Anti-Defamation League. A throughline in her profession as a lawyer and nonprofit chief has been programming for college kids and academics in underserved communities. She started at her SCLA put up earlier this yr.
Susskind will oversee a transformative renovation of the SCLA downtown Los Angeles headquarters that can create a brand new 299-seat state-of-the artwork multimedia and dwell performing arts and neighborhood middle. The newly renovated studio will even assist the enlargement of a variety of SCLA’s White Home-awarded youth employment applications and transitional arts employment on-the-job coaching experiences, which assist the town’s most severely unemployed populations.
“It’s thrilling to be a part of the transformation of a neighborhood,” stated Susskind in an announcement. “The brand new area will bolster the Shakespeare Heart’s lengthy historical past of offering world-class theatre and life-transforming schooling and workforce applications. We additionally see it as offering a western gateway to the downtown arts neighborhood, anchored within the Grand Avenue hall which homes the Civic Heart, Cathedral of our Girl of the Angels, Music Heart, Walt Disney Live performance Corridor, Colburn Faculty, and the Broad and MOCA museums.”
Below her management at Train Democracy, the group adopted and carried out a strategic plan to broaden exterior and media relations, replace methods and gear, and enhance the efficacy and attain of applications. Among the many speedy impacts of the plan was that Train Democracy almost doubled the proportion of girls and folks of shade on its board, created a dynamic year-round advertising and marketing and fundraising marketing campaign, and created new and reorganized workers positions.
In her 18 years on the Anti-Defamation League, Susskind oversaw a civil rights agenda encompassing anti-bias schooling and bullying prevention applications, Holocaust schooling, hate crime sufferer help, and advocacy for constitutional rights. She additionally conceived and convened L.A. For Good, a coalition of neighborhood leaders standing collectively to battle hate and create a extra unified Los Angeles. Susskind additionally performs the violin with the Culver Metropolis Symphony Orchestra.
Since 1985, the Shakespeare Heart of Los Angeles has been a hub for award-winning traditional theatrical productions, applications, and occasions designed to interact, enrich, and empower folks from all walks of life. As of 2022, its finances was round $1.5 million.
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