Lisa Donovan, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Fine and Performing Arts Department at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Previously, she served as Lesley University’s Director of the Creative Arts in Learning Division. Lisa has broad experience as an arts educator and administrator in arts organizations including Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Berkshire Opera Company, Barrington Stage Company, UMASS Theatre Department, Boston University's Theater, Visual Arts and Tanglewood Institutes. Her TEDtalk on Thinking Like a Region explores the arts as a strategy for regional change. She is Co-founder of Berkshire Regional Arts Integration Network (BRAINworks.mcla.edu); Director, C4 Initiative (Creative Compact for Collaborative Collective Impact); co-author of the Berkshire Blueprint for Arts integration and Education for Berkshire County, and directs the MCLA Institute for Arts and Humanities. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on arts integration, the arts as a strategy for assessment and rural arts education. She is editor and coauthor of a five book series on arts integration and co-author of Teacher as Curator: Formative Assessment and Arts-Based Strategies.