Sondra Myers

Sondra Myers is Senior Fellow for International, Civic and Cultural Projects and Director of the Schemel Forum at The University of Scranton, and is an author and frequent lecturer on the arts, humanities and civil society, focusing on two major themes: the integration of culture into public policy in the United States, and the strengthening of the culture of democracy worldwide. From 2001 to 2005 she served as a senior associate at the University of Maryland's Democracy Collaborative, organizing and coordinating meetings of The Democracy Collaborative's International Roundtables in Washington and Berlin and editing reports on their proceedings. From 1999 to 2001, Myers directed the President's Millennium Seminars: The University for a New Democratic Era, a project of The George Washington University. She was the Rapoport Democracy Fellow at the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University, 2000-2001. From 1996 to 2000, Myers served as senior advisor to the president of Connecticut College. From 1993 to 1995, Myers served as special assistant to the chairman at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Prior to joining the NEH staff, she served from 1987 to 1993 as cultural advisor to Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey. Myers is past chair of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, past president of the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and founding president of Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania and the State Arts Advocacy League of America. She is former chair of ArtTable, Inc., Washington Chapter, a member of the Public Education Committee of the American Bar Association, and served on the Board of Directors of the Centre for Creative Communities in the United Kingdom. Myers served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1980 to 1985. She has been a member and vice chair of the Board of Trustees at the University of Scranton (PA) and is a trustee of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.