Speaker Announcement: Ian David Moss

As Research Director for Fractured Atlas, Ian David Moss helps institutional funders, government agencies, and others support the field more effectively by harnessing the power of data to drive informed decision-making. He designed and leads implementation of Fractured Atlas's pioneering cultural asset mapping software, Archipelago, which aggregates and visualizes information about creative activities in a particular geography in order to better illuminate who's making art, who's engaging with it, where it's happening, and how it's made possible. Ian is also the founder and editor of the highly acclaimed arts policy blog Createquity, through which he engages a readership of nearly 1,500 funders, researchers, policymakers, arts administrators, students, and artists in an ongoing conversation about the role of the arts in a creative society. His writing has been featured on the blogs or websites of the National Endowment for the Arts, Grantmakers in the Arts, Americans for the Arts, League of American Orchestras, Foundation Center, Philanthropedia, and WolfBrown, among many other organizations.

Ian received an MBA from the Yale School of Management in spring 2009. While in school, he was co-Chair of the fourth annual Yale SOM Philanthropy Conference and authored two program evaluation plans for a local community foundation and a national social service agency. During the summer of 2008, he was a participant in the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Performing Arts Program's five-year self-evaluation process, and co-developed the logic model that the Foundation has subsequently used to allocate more than $33 million in grants to the Bay Area performing arts community.

Previously, Ian was Development Manager for the American Music Center and founded two first-of-their-kind performing ensembles in New York City: a hybrid electric chamber ensemble/experimental rock band, and a choral collective dedicated to the music of living composers. Ian is a member of the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council and was recently named one of the nonprofit arts sector's top 25 "most powerful and influential leaders" by arts consultant and blogger Barry Hessenius. His article co-authored with Daniel Reid, "Audiences at the Gate: Reinventing Arts Philanthropy Through Guided Crowdsourcing," was selected from among 304 submissions for publication in Edward P. Clapp's 20UNDER40 anthology, and
can be read in its entirety for free here.