Alli Chagi-Starr is the Senior Community Engagement Strategist with Green For All, a national organization dedicated to lifting people out of poverty through the green economy. A resident of Oakland, CA, Alli is a co-founder of the 10-year old Art in Action Youth Leadership Program and its new Green Youth Arts & Media Center. She also founded Dancers Without Borders, and Art and Revolution. Alli has worked as a choreographer, theater director, cultural event producer, writer and dancer. She offers workshops on arts activism and cultural organizing strategies. She has a B.A. in Cultural Organizing and Performance from The Art and Social Change Department of New College of California, 1991. Her essays about innovative activism appear in multiple publications.