Meet the bloggers: Talia Gibas

Talia Gibas, Associate Editor at Createquity, also is Arts for All Manager at the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Arts for All works to restore and sustain high quality arts education throughout Los Angeles County. Working closely with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, Talia is responsible for arts education professional development programming for school district leaders. She also manages grant programs that support those leaders and connect school districts with teaching artists and arts organizations throughout the County. Prior to joining the Arts Commission in February 2009 she was Program Assistant at the Getty Foundation. She earned her A.B. in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago, and Ed.M in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She currently serves on Americans for the Arts’ Arts Education Council and completed the Createquity Writing Fellowship in January 2013. Talia originally hails from Philadelphia. In her non-arts life, she is a distance runner and triathlete and completed her first Half-Ironman distance race in mid-July 2013.