Julie Chang Schulman

is the Development and Community Director (idk we still figuring this out) of Forever Safe Spaces, has been emceeing and empowering communities through arts and cultural work for over 15 years.

As founder and primary liaison of Seattle Artist Coalition for Equitable Development (ACED), she has advised the city’s Office of Film and Music and Office of Community Planning on issues of equity, arts, and development, served on the curriculum committee of ART’s inaugural Building Arts Space Equitably (BASE) Cohort and the community advisory task force for 4Culture’s Building for Equity Program, all while infusing almost $200,000 into the local ecosystem via direct advocacy for nine organizations and a dozen individual artists.

She also organizes with Seattle COVID-19 Mutual Aid Solidarity Action Network, Decriminalize Seattle/KC Equity Now, Seattle Independent Artist Sustainability Effort, serves as adult mentor for Hydrant- a grassroots youth arts leadership collective and digital platform, and is a NW member of Common Field, a national network of artist-lead organizations piloting Artist New Deal in the COVID era.