Melanie La Rosa // Jules Rochielle Sievert // Anne Schaper Englot // Victor Davson

This week, our guests discuss art and community engagement. Melanie La Rosa is a professor of media production at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York. She is also an award winning independent filmmaker and her latest film, “How To Power A City” is currently in post production, with short excerpts screening at festivals worldwide. Jules Rochielle Sievert is an artist and the Creative Director at NuLawLab, at Northeastern University School of Law. She has developed key cross-disciplinary institutional projects, community based partnerships and creative programs for the lab. Anne Schaper Englot is a Professor of Practice in Architecture and Humanities in the Arts, Culture and Media Department at Rutgers University –Newark and co-directs Express Newark, a 50,000 square foot university art community center. Victor Davson is a visual artist and founding director of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, in Newark, New Jersey and has served as its director for 33 years.