Co-Founders, Angie Tillges + Rebecca Hunter
Angie and Rebecca have each spent over twenty years working in the civic and cultural sectors. Their leadership experience includes large scale public projects and discrete engagements focused on cultural + environmental strategy, executive leadership, participatory engagement, and civic project management.
Rebecca Hunter is an executive administrator and a cultural strategist. Her professional career has been inspired by civic space, social change and feminist magical realism writings. Her professional experience includes 25 years of progressive leadership, organizational advancement, and complex project management in the arts, cultural and education sectors. She has produced and programmed projects that range from international literary and multidisciplinary arts festivals, youth and adult facing creative community initiatives, conferences & symposia, large scale spectacle theater productions in public space and creative learning initiatives in formal and informal educational spaces. At the heart her work is an entrepreneurial spirit to connect people to place and environment. She does her best thinking and strategy work when swimming, running and talking with a cherished circle of thought partners. Originally from the UK, she has worked in Belfast N. Ireland, London UK, and is currently based in Chicago and Michigan. She is always inspired by trees.
Angie Tillges is a civic project manager, artist and educator skilled at working with public institutions and community organizations on projects of social, artistic, and ecological importance. She leads projects that provide people the opportunity to make personal, lasting connections with public and natural spaces and with one another. She recently served as Fellow for the City of Saint Paul, Great River Passage Initiative. Formerly, she served as Senior Program Specialist for Chicago Parks Culture and Nature Unit. Tillges spent a decade as an artist and arts integration specialist in schools, social service organizations, and neighborhoods facilitating large-scale, community-devised public art and performance in Chicago and internationally. She holds an M. Ed. from Harvard.