Episode 65: Lorrie Chang - Finding an Art & Community TRUE NORTH

<p>This week we visit with researcher, writer, planner, <strong>Lorrie Chang </strong>to talk about her work with ArtPlace America's Community Development Investment (CDI) program. Along the way we will explore how artists from the Zuni Pueblo, and Southwest Minnesota worked with community developers to integrate arts-based tools and strategies as an enduring core of their practice? </p><h2><em>BIO</em></h2><p>Lorrie Chang centers an arts and cultural-based approach to community change and development as a path to collective liberation. At PolicyLink, she designed and evaluated the nation’s first Creative Placemaking technical assistance program for The National Endowment for the Arts, served as the research partner for <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__communitydevelopment.art_About-5FCDI&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=fjqqkt_aJODNqO9V7birNCXSQUqgv0rUaeoIZREz7K8&amp;m=YNCJP0ZmRq8H4CtyaeSfI55VDWRgLwbQQaJAknzSVPM&amp;s=_xz8eO0r5UC64KtfB7DM_oF1PB_WHKoZTQN0HAI64Uc&amp;e=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ArtPlace’s experiment </a>to integrate arts and culture strategies into community development organizations, and supported six <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.policylink.org_our-2Dwork_community_arts-2Dculture_aced&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=fjqqkt_aJODNqO9V7birNCXSQUqgv0rUaeoIZREz7K8&amp;m=YNCJP0ZmRq8H4CtyaeSfI55VDWRgLwbQQaJAknzSVPM&amp;s=djPuXqYusQCPEQp7PWK3ptpPi3pEmQfV1pcmKdw4kJg&amp;e=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">arts org</a>anizations advancing equitable policies across the country. In East Portland, she led community engagement rooted in storytelling for The People’s Plan-- a plan by and for the people projecting a vision for a thriving Black community. As a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Truth Fellow, she explored, "How do we find and empower TRUTH?". Last year, in stillness, she humbly pursued, “What does liberation look like for me?”. She now