The5 with Jackie Dace of St. Louis Artworks

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Jackie Dace, Executive Director of St. Louis Artworks, joins The5 to talk about Stable Income and Budgeting. Jackie leads listeners through her own significant experience with museums and nonprofits and working through balancing long term budgeting with funding that only provides for the short term.

Jacqueline K. Dace is the Executive Director with St. Louis Artworks, in St. Louis, MO, overseeing the creation of numerous public art installations throughout the city. Dace previously served as deputy director of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center; director of internal
affairs and interim executive director at the National Blues Museum; project manager for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson; collections manager at the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago; curator of African American history at the Missouri Historical Society and adjunct professor of Afro-African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dace is a recipient of the Hollywood Black Film Festival and Kansas City Film Festival Awards, as well as the National Arts Strategies Fellowship. She participated in the inaugural Public History Institute, developed by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, held at Yale University. Dace has served as a practitioner with W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity program and graduated from the Jackson Division of the FBI Citizens Academy. Dace was selected to participate in the first American Express Women in Music Leadership Academy,
2018, held in New York City and is the recipient of the 2019 Ohio Valley Regional Emmy for the documentary. “Mandela: Prepared to Die”. In 2022, Dace served as an Outstanding Alumni speaker at the Undergraduate Ceremony, for the College of Arts & Sciences at Webster University. In 2023, Dace received the Museum Leadership Award from the Association of African American Museums and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Webster University.

Dace currently serves on the Design Committee for Delmar Main Street is currently a member of Webster University’s College and Humanities and Social Sciences Advisory Board. She’s additionally served on several committees for the Organization of American Historians, the National Council on Public History, the Oral History Association, the Annual Meeting of the American Alliance of Museums and is a former board member for the Association of African American Museums.

The5 is a celebration of the work being done by nonprofit professionals, highlighting valuable tips and methods that nonprofits should be utilizing. The5 is aptly named as NMBL Strategies celebrates our 5 year anniversary. Host Eric Moraczewski leads guests on a journey of topics that are of deep importance to the guest and discusses how nonprofits and nonprofit leaders can benefit from the experience and expertise.