Maro Elliott (she/her) has worked for arts and culture nonprofits for over a decade. She is currently the stewardship writer at Smith College and a volunteer with the Decarcerate Western Mass Bailout Project.
Her previous employers include MASS MoCA, where she was the Manager of Institutional Giving and a member of the MASS MoCA Union—UAW Local 2110 organizing and bargaining committees, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the International Contemporary Ensemble.
She received a B.A. in French Studies with a minor in Art History from Smith College and studied in the Performance Studies M.A. Program at NYU Tisch.
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The Boston Globe
Hyperallergic
WBUR
WAMC
panels/presentations
New England Museum Association: Strengthening Democracy: Labor Unions in the Arts, November 2022, with Amanda Tobin, The Ohio State University
Berkshires DSA: Get Political, October 2022, moderated by Sidney Rothstein, Williams College, with Paula Kingsbury-Evans, Candidate for 1st Berkshire District, MA House of Representatives
Museum Workers Advocacy Day: Union Teach-In, March 2022, moderated by Heidi Schureck, National EMP Network, with Oto Rivers, United Campus Workers of Georgia, and Aimée-Josiane Twagirumukiza, The National LGBTQ+ Workers Center
Rutgers LEARN: We Still Can’t Eat Prestige, October 2021, moderated by Sarah Jaffe, labor journalist and author, with Robert Burnier, The Art Institute of Chicago, AICWU/AFSCME; Karissa Francis, Whitney Museum, UAW Local 2110; and Brian Kipruto, Philadelphia Museum of Art, AFSCME DC 47 Local 397
New England Museum Association: Unions Q&A, October 2021, with Chelsea Farrell, UAW Local 2110; Daniel Morse, AFSCME Council 93; and Rachel Quimby, EcoTarium
Photo by Joanna Chattman.