This week, we're turning over the mic to Christine Shepard. Featured in the Broadway companies of Head Over Heels and Mean Girls, Chris is a fierce advocate for providing opportunity for all. In her first two-part episode, Chris takes on art education.

Education is an ongoing topic of debate in our country. The arts, forever America's favorite face rag, has its own education that continues to lose acknowledgement and funding in schools nationwide. There are opportunities to learn outside of school, but those don't come without a price. Education has a lot of systemic issue, but this episode focuses on how arts education has helped shape the lack of representation seen on Broadway currently.

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