Ron Ragin is a researcher, strategist, organizer, coach, and interdisciplinary artist. He sustains a vibrant performance and creative writing practice, rooted in music of the African Diaspora, improvisation, and cultivation of spiritual technologies. He is ever-curious about the role of sound, and the unamplified human voice in particular, in transforming our environment, our selves, and each other. Alongside his creative work, Ron partners with artists, organizations, and grantmaking institutions to help them move in deeper alignment with their values, goals, and principles. For more than two decades, he has worked in the arts and philanthropy, with program officer posts at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Ron makes a mean red velvet cake, and can throw down on some biscuits. 

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Likes to talk to artists about: Purpose, vision, creating a sustainable creative life, surviving capitalism, everyday futurism, all things strategy, navigating institutions.

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PHOTO: Melisa Cardona