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Program Director
Risa has been working for the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities as Program Director since 2003. Ms. Gilpin creates, manages, and promotes all RICH Council Conducted programs including the annual Theme Year/Area of Inquiry activities; Arts and Humanities month programming; RICH Travels; RICH Responds; and RICH's annual event. Prior to working at the Council, Ms. Gilpin was a Board member at RICH for 6 years and was Director of Programming at the Providence Athenaeum, a 250-year-old library with a vital public humanities program, for 23 years. Her experience also includes 11 years at the Rhode Island School of Design Library. Ms. Gilpin's interests include literature, world music, dance, and community building; she is self-taught and has benefited from humanities programming and courses her entire life.