Acknowledgments

McNeil Creative Enterprises (MCE) would like to thank the Intercultural Leadership Institute’s (ILI) Founding Partners – Lori Pourier (First Peoples Fund), Vicky Holt-Takamine (PA’I Foundation Fund), María López De León (National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures), Michelle Ramos (Alternate ROOTS) and Carlton Turner (Mississippi Center for Cultural Production) – for their bold vision, advocacy, and leadership during extremely uncertain times. We’d like to thank Lauren Fitzgerald (ILI’s Managing Director) and the ILI Founding Partners for their consistency, wisdom and generous engagement in this program evaluation process.

Sincere love and light to all people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are all forever changed because of it.

Thank you to the Ford Foundation for generously supporting this impact study.

Finally, we thank the McNeil Creative Enterprises team - Liz Alsina, Kiana Carrington, Angelica Cortez, Angelisa Gillyard, Eboni Jones, Mina Matlon, Alison McNeil, and Emanda Thomas - for their thoughtfulness, heart, data collection, analysis and reporting efforts. Their diligence and commitment to this work was extraordinary.

Special thanks to our report designer, Talooka Studio.