Jamie Haft is assistant director of the national coalition of 100 universities, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, where she is organizing its Presidents’ Council and creating programs that bridge higher education and grassroots arts and cultural organizations. Recently, Haft authored a book chapter, “Becoming a Civic Artist,” in Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities (Vanderbilt University Press, 2015); developed the 2014 Imagining America Presidents’ Forum Report; and published “Cultural Roots and Knowledge” in Public: A Journal of Imagining America (2014). She has also conceptualized and produced a documentary web series on student activism, and written about publicly engaged scholarship in the humanities, arts, and design for a national collection of trend papers commissioned by Americans for the Arts. Haft received a MS from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.