“Doug Borwick approaches community engagement with the thoroughness of an academic, but the grounded mentality of an arts administrator who understands that day-to-day work in the arts and culture section is not always so theoretical. By taking part in Doug’s training, I was granted access to a wide variety of resources that I used both at work and even in my master’s studies. Additionally, working through challenging topics currently affecting the arts and cultural management world with informed and interested colleagues made the experience all the more worthwhile.”

“It was a pleasure to work with Doug as part of the first Community Engagement Cohort. Doug might say those of us in the program were guinea pigs that he tried out his Community Engagement program ideas on, but in fact I received such an incredible education and have stayed in contact with several of the others in the program, utilizing his well thought out strategies and theories with success. He is a fantastic instructor and really has a deep understanding of the challenges inherent in building strong, sustainable Community Engagement Programming. However, for all the challenges one might present him with, he has tremendous skill, creativity, and experience in how to solve those challenges!”

“The enthusiasm for these workshops was tremendous. We were happily surprised by the thoughtful and strategic responses in the days following. The topic really seemed to spark several ‘ah-ha’ moments with our participants and stirred up ideas for specific actions steps they needed to take to be more effective in their role.”