Legislating the Creative Economy + Disaster Relief Policy | Briefing Session

Frank W. Cullen Jr. is vice president of U.S. policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC). Cullen directs the center’s domestic programs in promoting and protecting IP rights in both the online and physical markets. He guides the efforts to advance IP enforcement and deter trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy.

Cullen began his career in Los Angeles, working as a consultant and later vice president for FCA Company, a full-service public affairs and government relations firm. In 1989, he was appointed public relations director for the city of Palm Springs, California, and conceived and implemented a promotional campaign featuring then-Mayor Sonny Bono.

Subsequently, he served as director of Bono for U.S. Senate ’92, as well as provided consulting services to a wide array of clients in the Palm Springs region.

When Bono was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994, he asked Cullen to join him to direct his communications shop, a position he held until Bono’s untimely death in 1998. Then, he joined Rep. Mary Bono as her communications director. After one year, he was promoted to chief of staff, a position he held for 15 years.

An accomplished communicator and writer, Cullen appeared as a guest on numerous TV and radio shows, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Larry King Live, ABC Radio, CBS Radio. Cullen provided political analysis and election coverage for KESQ TV, KMIR TV, and The Desert Sun newspaper and guest editorials that appeared in newspapers in California and Washington, D.C.

Cullen also worked for legendary director Francis Ford Coppola at his Zoetrope Studios in Hollywood, California, and continues to have an avid appreciation for cinema and the performing arts.

He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, with a B.F.A. degree from the School of Cinema and Television. He resides in Vienna, Virginia, with his wife, Sonia, and their children, Taylor Anne and Wil.

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Glus is the Executive Director of the Commission for Arts & Culture for the City of San Diego, where he is responsible for advancing the City’s investments in arts, culture and creativity. Since 

joining the City in November, 2018, Glus initiated San Diego’s first creating economy study and the Commission’s first DEI assessment. Prioritizing the work of individual artists and creatives as well as the fluid cultural economy of the Tijuana/San Diego megaregion, the Commission’s work has now expanded to creative workforce development, creative youth development and binational cultural initiatives. 

Prior to joining the City of San Diego, Glus was the Director for Cultural & Creative Economy for the City of Sacramento.  Prior to that, he held similar positions as CEO at Houston Arts Alliance, Executive Director for Arts & Culture for the City of Pasadena, CA, and Arts Council Director for the City of Evanston, IL. Glus’ education includes masters work in art and architectural history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, public policy and urban economics at Indiana University Bloomington, and urban studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. 

Glus currently serves on the board of Californians for the Arts and serves on the executive committee of the US Urban Arts Federation. He previously served on the board of Texans for the Arts. 

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David Holland is the Deputy Director at WESTAF, where he serves as the primary liaison with state and local arts agencies, regional arts organizations, arts advocacy groups, and other partners and drives the impact of WESTAF’s leadership and professional development programming, grantmaking, and technical assistance and consulting services across teams. Since joining WESTAF, he has co-directed the inaugural Creative Vitality™ Summit; authored the Creative Economies and Economic Recovery report in partnership with the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies; co-led the redesign of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Performing Arts Discovery program in collaboration with regional and national partners; established the Western Arts Advocacy Network (WAAN); collaborated on developing new equity-focused relief and resilience grantmaking programs in the West and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; spearheaded WESTAF’s Arts and the Rural West and Arts Leadership and Advocacy Seminars; and secured private and public investment for WESTAF’s programs. David was previously the associate director of the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston. Prior roles include senior management positions with the VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation, VCU School of the Arts, ART 180, the Latin Ballet of Virginia, Arts & Business, and the UK innovation foundation Nesta. David's early career included roles with BOP Consulting, a global consulting firm on culture and the creative industries, where he was a senior consultant leading projects for government departments, public agencies, universities, and international organizations, and the UK’s National Campaign for the Arts, where he was campaigns officer. For more than 11 years, he has served as an independent management consultant working primarily with clients in the arts and culture field both nationally and internationally. He has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts,  Colorado Creative Industries, Colorado’s Arts in Society Program, the Boston Foundation, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and Virginians for the Arts and as a site reviewer for Massachusetts Cultural Council. He serves as a Co-Chair of the Creative States Coalition and on the Cultural Advocacy Group. Holland has also served on the boards of several nonprofits, including the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. His writings have been published by Arts Council England, the British Council, the Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning, and others. He is a Salzburg Global Fellow, Evan Carroll Commager Fellow, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Holland holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and asian studies from Amherst College and master’s degrees in international studies and diplomacy and the history of art from the University of London, SOAS.

Craig Nutt is a studio furniture maker and sculptor whose work is in numerous public collections including the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. He was a founding board member of The Furniture Society and served as Interim Executive Director of the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists. In April of 2015 he completed a ten-year stint as Director of Programs for CERF+: The Artists Safety Net a national artists’ service organization based in Vermont. He currently serves as the CERF+ Advisor on Policy and Government Relations. In that capacity he has been active in advocating for the needs of individual artists and microbusinesses in the pandemic and other disasters, for greater involvement of artists and arts organizations in disaster recovery, and for strengthening the safety net for all workers, including the self-employed.

In 2018 he received the Award of Distinction from The Furniture Society and a Lifetime Honorary Membership from Tennessee Craft, both in recognition of his work and contributions to the arts field. Nutt currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and the Artists Committee of Americans for the Arts. He lives and works in Kingston Springs, Tennessee.

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Narric Rome serves as Vice President for Government Affairs and Arts Education at Americans for the Arts.  In his role he manages federal, state, and local government advocacy, grassroots campaigns, policy development, and national coalition-building efforts with cultural, civic, and private sector organizations with the goal of influencing public policies that advance direct and indirect support for the arts and arts education.

Narric is responsible for promoting the Americans for the Arts’ message to Congress and the Biden Administration, and leading the policy development for the annual National Arts Action Summit, including Arts Advocacy Day, which involves coordinating over 85 arts organizations as partners. In 2019, the advocacy effort by Americans for the Arts and the Arts Action Fund to "#SaveTheNEA" was celebrated by the Public Affairs Council with their Lobbying Innovation Award.

Most recently, Narric has pursued a national campaign to boost the creative economy and workforce by building support for a trio of congressional bills including the Creative Economy Revitalization Act, the CREATE Act and PLACE Act in Congress.

Narric also oversees the Americans for the Arts education program that seeks equitable access to the arts through advocacy at the national, state and local levels. This work has included overseeing a $1.5 mil. three-year multi-state policy initiative, and successful passage of the National Arts In Education Week resolution through both bodies of Congress.

Prior to joining Americans for the Arts, Narric worked on the policy staff of Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign in Vermont and served as a legislative aide to Secretary Richard Riley at the U.S. Department of Education where he received the Peer Recognition Award in 1999.  Earlier in his career, Narric worked on Capitol Hill, at the Podesta Group and on several state and national political campaigns. He is the immediate past-president of the Vermont State Society.

Narric holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Vermont and a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University.

Carolyn Ryan oversees the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s public policy and research department, which develops and advocates for policies that contribute to the economic success of the region. Since joining the Chamber in 2015, Carolyn has developed the organization’s policy priorities and positions and elevated its role in public policymaking. 

Previously, Carolyn was a policy analyst at the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF) where she focused on issues of tax and municipal finance, among other areas. Prior to MTF, Carolyn was a consultant with Public Financial Management in Philadelphia where she was a member of the state-appointed financial oversight teams for Pittsburgh and Reading, Pennsylvania. She previously held positions with the Office of the Legislative Counsel in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Harvard University development office.

Carolyn holds a B.A in English from Williams College, where she was co-captain of the women’s varsity volleyball team, and an M.P.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, where she received the Audrey Miller Poritzky award for leadership. She is a board member of the Massachusetts Housing Partnership, and on advisory boards for New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University’s Tisch College.

Amy Schwartzman has been working at the intersection of arts and disaster management since 2001, when she was hired to be the Information Officer of the New York Arts Recovery Fund, created to help NYC’s artists and arts organizations recover from 9/11. Since 2007, she has been a consultant to the National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness and Emergency Response (NCAPER) and a member of its Steering Committee since 2018.  She is the author of its Blueprint for a nationwide safety net for artists and arts organizations, as well “Essential Guidelines for Arts Responders Organizing in the Aftermath of Disaster” and the principal author of its “Cultural Placekeeping Guide.”  Amy has consulted with the Performing Arts Readiness Project (PAR) and is the co-designer of its webinars “Networking for Disaster Management in the Performing Arts” and “Community Recovery Through Arts and Culture.”  After Superstorm Sandy, Amy was hired by FEMA to be a Community Planner dedicated to the recovery of artists and arts organizations in the NYS Recovery Office.   In 2018, she was hired to aid the RAND Corporation in the Recovery Plan for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, focusing on the recovery of artists, artisans and arts organizations and helped author its report for DHS entitled “Cultural and Historical Resources Recovery Planning in Puerto Rico.”   For much of her life, Amy has been a dancer/director/choreographer. 

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