Jamie Schumacher Kalakaru-Mava

Jamie Schumacher is LISC Twin Cities’ Program Officer for Creative Placemaking. She joins LISC from the West Bank Business Association (WBBA), a nonprofit organization that serves the West Bank / Cedar-Riverside community of Minneapolis. The area is one of Minneapolis’ key Cultural Districts, and Jamie has been an active participant in the LISC’s Creative Placemaking program for nearing a decade. Her role at LISC is to oversee the Twin Cities’ creative placemaking program and cultural districts.

Originally from Southern California, Jamie moved to Minnesota in 2003 to join the Twin Cities creative community. She served as an organizer in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District and as a consultant to a variety of nonprofits, developing a specialty in helping organizations and communities going through transitions. Jamie is also a writer and an artist, and her work and passion lay at the intersection of art, culture, and economic development. 

Jamie holds a bachelor’s degree from California State University of Fullerton and a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota.  A long history of working with the students on hands-on community based projects, she now also teaches graduate students via the University of Minnesota’s Civic and Engaged Leaders Program.