Advance Your Art: From Artist To Creative Entrepreneur

MEET KIT MARTIN:While I never graduated high school, I am an artist, coder, and doctoral candidate who has worked with underserved communities for the past 20 years. I grew up in Sudan, Kenya, and the United States. Such disparate perspectives brought into focus gross racial, socio-geographic, and gender disparities. Through a Watson Fellowship and while obtaining an M.A. in international development, I spent my years after college at work on humanitarian projects in Brazil, Senegal, Jordan, Tanzania, and Egypt; in the last, I worked with garbage collectors, الزبالين, to improve working conditions and income. After obtaining my Master’s, I moved to the newly independent South Sudan, working with local partners and international donors to decolonize international development by shifting power dynamics, and administer projects with loan provision, agricultural systems transformation, and resettling displaced refugees. Most recently, my motivation to reduce barriers to equality and enfranchise historically under