staff bios
Mary Margaret Schoenfeld
Community Development Manager
Mary Margaret Schoenfeld joined the staff of Americans for the Arts in April 2007. As community development manager, she builds national partnerships, develops programs, provides technical assistance, and serves as a content resource for arts-based community and economic development. She also works to support and develop various councils and interest groups within Americans for the Arts.
Mary Margaret most recently worked for ten years at the Cultural Affairs Division of Arlington County, Virginia. She managed the Arts Incubator Program, which provides free and low-cost access to rehearsal and performance space, as well as a variety of design and organizational capacity building services in addition to grants. The program was the first public-sector arts program awarded the Kennedy School/Ford Foundation Innovations in American Government Award. Prior to her work in Arlington, she served as executive director of the League of Historic American Theatres, grants officer at the Vermont Arts Council and as a gallery assistant at the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
A Vermont native, Mary Margaret received a B.A. in government from St. Lawrence University and an M.A. in public affairs from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, focusing on community and economic development and technology, energy, and environmental policy. While in graduate school, she held research assistantships at the Center for Women and Public Policy and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.
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