Betsy Theobald Richards, Creative Fellow

As an arts administrator, theater director, and writer, Betsy has spent the last 20 years advocating for emerging and underserved voices in the arts. Most recently, she served as a Program Officer at the Ford Foundation in Media, Arts and Culture overseeing a national portfolio on indigenous and place-based arts organizations and cultural communities. Prior to that, she was the Director of Public Programs for the Pequot Museum, the country’s largest tribal museum and research center.

Betsy is a faculty member in NYU’s Heyman Center for Philanthropy and is the Senior Cultural Advisor to the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts. She is a graduate of New York University and Yale School of Drama.