Cézanne Charles

Cézanne Charles has more than 20 years of executive and senior management experience in nonprofit and for-profit creative industries in the United States and the United Kingdom. With John Marshall, she is the co-founder and director of rootoftwo, a research- and practice-driven hybrid design studio that engages in civic future-making, using design methods to facilitate people to imagine and shape collective actions for more just, resilient, inclusive, and adaptive futures.

From 2008-2019, Cézanne served as director of creative industries at Creative Many, where she led the design and implementation of the company’s creative industries research. Here, Cézanne also designed and directed programs that provided the knowledge, funding, networks, and advocacy needed to empower the practices of Michigan artists, designers, and makers, with a core focus on Detroit.

In addition to Allied Media Projects, Cézanne serves on the Stewardship Board for Design Core Detroit’s UNESCO City of Design initiative, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Americans for the Arts Creative Economy Advisory, and the Zoning Advisory Group of the Detroit Planning Commission. https://rootoftwo.com