SI '15 Alum Leslie Thomas Honored

Oct 23, 2015

SI Alum Leslie Thomas has been selected as one of six leaders in the field of community arts to receive a 2015 National Guild Milestone Certificate of Appreciation. The award is given to community arts directors who have demonstrated a long standing commitment to supporting and evolving community arts education. Leslie Thomas participated in CPD’s Summer Institute in the summer of 2015, where he presented on the merits of using community arts as a facet of cultural diplomacy. 

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