BRING
JUSTICE + JOY INTO ALL THAT YOU DO.

Mallory Rukhsana Nezam is a cross-sector culture-maker who loves cities and believes that we have the tools to make them more just and joyful. She specializes in public art, equitable creative placemaking, facilitation, strategy and the public domain. Through her cross-sector practice, Justice + Joy, she engages stakeholders across sectors to de-silo the way we run cities and build new models of creative, interdisciplinary collaboration. She has helped build inaugural arts & culture teams in non-arts organizations at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council of Boston, Transportation for America and PolicyLink, and is the co-founder of the Civic Artist in Residence Lab (CAIR Lab). Raised in St. Louis, MO, she served as the Founding Director of St. Louis Improv Anywhere, and co-founder of the St. Louis Artivists. Through her art practice she disarms and disrupts public space norms using play and participatory performance. She holds a Master of Design from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design where she began research on artists residencies in government and eventually co-founded CAIR Lab, a lab building a community of practice around embedding artists in government. She was a 2020 Monument Lab Transnational Fellow, a 2019-2020 inaugural Practices for Change Fellow at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute of Design & the Arts and is currently the Curator of Partnerships and Programs for FORWARD, a publication by Forecast Public Art. She will be a 2023-2024 Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs. She seeks to be in every room she’s not supposed to be in.

Lilith Winkler-Schor is an urbanist, researcher, and designer and currently serves as Justice + Joy’s Project Manager. Simultaneously, she is pursuing a Master of Urban Planning at UCLA with a concentration in urban design and focus on the role of arts and culture in equitable planning processes. Lilith spent the last decade in New Orleans, where she brought together her creative thinking and passion for process to collaborate on a variety of equity-oriented civic projects throughout the city, including projects on transportation, water infrastructure, cultural economies, reentry, and youth services. In her previous role as the Program Director for Algiers Economic she oversaw community economic development for the Algiers neighborhood, with a particular focus on supporting under-resourced small business owners to navigate the challenges of the pandemic and natural disasters. Lilith is the co-founder of Mixed Media, a multimedia civic arts project in partnership with the city’s flagship newspaper. Born in Munich, Germany, and raised in Seattle, Lilith is a Samvid Scholar, Truman Scholar, and Next City Vanguard. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Tulane University, with a B.A. in Political Science and Social Policy and a B.F.A. in visual art.