Ben Fink

Ben Fink’s cross-cultural organizing work includes cofounding the Letcher County Culture Hub in the coalfields of east Kentucky; the All-In initiative in the Naugatuck Valley of Connecticut; the Performing Our Future project in West Baltimore and rural Alabama and Wisconsin; and the Kentucky-Massachusetts cross-partisan dialogue project Hands Across the Hills. He also consults with service nonprofits, policy shops, and local and regional governments as a teacher, trainer, facilitator, researcher, and writer. Ben’s work has been featured by Salon.com, the Brookings Institution, MIT, Harvard Law School, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the general editor of the book series Art in a Democracy, and he writes the newsletter We Own What We Make. Ben holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies from the University of Minnesota. In 2020 he was recognized by Time Magazine as one of “27 People Bridging Divides Across America.”