Liliana Wolking Joins the KID smART team
NEW ORLEANS - KID smART recently welcomed Liliana Wolking as its director of development. In this role, Wolking will utilize her development background to design and implements strategic fund development plans aligned with KID smART’s values of collaboration, creativity, sustainability and equity.
“We are thrilled to welcome Liliana to the KID smART team,” said Elise Gallinot Goldman, executive director of KID smART. “Her years of experience in development for art centric organizations make her a vital asset to our team.”
Originally from Minneapolis, Wolking came to New Orleans via Los Angeles and New York. Having spent time working in development for P.S. ARTS, Netflix, The Art Elysium and YAYA. Wolking brings to KID smART a wealth of knowledge of the benefits of the arts. She holds a bachelor’s degree in visual communications from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles.
“I am looking forward to building strong relationships with all potential and existing KID smART donors,” said Wolking. “Advocating for public school students to receive greater access to arts-rich education is something that I am truly passionate about, and through this position I am eager to see what we can do for the children of our community.”
For more information about Wolking and KID smART, please visit https://www.kidsmart.org
Artists Campbell Hutchinson and Allison Stewart founded KID smART in 1999 to provide public school students with greater access to arts-rich education. In its 24-year history, KID smART has served more than 63,000 students and 11,000 teachers in schools throughout New Orleans. With the belief that the power of the arts should be available to all New Orleans children, KID smART works within public schools to reach underserved children with the most to gain from an arts-rich, social-emotional education.
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About KID smART
Over the last two decades, KID smART has collaborated with more than 40 New Orleans public schools to blend the arts into academic lessons to make classrooms more effective and joyful places to learn. Through full-year artist residencies, students in KID smART Creative Schools prove to grow academically, artistically and emotionally. KID smART also partners with national thought leaders, including Harvard's Project Zero Classroom, to incorporate best practices in arts and education into its program model.