| ISPA 2025 New York Congress– Deyvani Saltzman |
 Deyvani SaltzmanDirector for Arts & Participation Devyani Saltzman is a Canadian writer, curator and the recently appointed Director of Arts at the Barbican. She was most recently Director of Public Programming at the Art Gallery of Ontario, North America’s fourth largest museum, Director of Literary Arts at the Banff Centre, one of the world's leading arts and creativity incubators, as well as a founding Curator at Luminato, Toronto’s international multi-arts festival. Her upcoming nonfiction book, EXITING: Towards a Future of Work that Serves Us All, comes out with Random House in 2025. It explores the trend of increasing pushback against systemic change in our institutions, the exiting of diverse leaders from organizations they were invited into, and what new healthier systems could look like. She is the former President of the Toronto Arts Council and has written and spoken extensively about social change and leadership for The Walrus Talks, the Canadian Arts Summit, the World City Forum. She hosted the podcast The Culture Shift and is a founding member of the think tank Public Imagination Network. Saltzman has a degree in Human Sciences from Oxford University, combining sociology, anthropology, animal behaviour and evolutionary biology to look at the complex underpinnings of human experience.
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