Drawing parallels between breathing and working as an academic, Hornbeck invites us to implement a gentle and considerate approach to leadership and pedagogy—one that promotes social justice like deep breathing.
Roxy Hornbeck
Roxy Hornbeck, MFA, is an Assistant Professor in Arts Leadership at Seattle University. Her inquiry methods are grounded in the practice of arts leadership through decolonial and intersectional frameworks. Her teaching in leadership, strategic planning, and entrepreneurship focuses on disrupting normalised expectations. She has presented many workshops with her research, most recently at the Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts conference (STP&A) and the International Leadership Association conference (ILA). As a practising artist and producer, she has developed artistic projects through her company, quiet, spanning from original musical scores to collaborative art installations all as a means towards representative social change.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey