Mellon Foundation
Salem Tsegaye currently serves as a Senior Program Associate for Humanities in Place at the Mellon Foundation, focusing on grantmaking in history, heritage, and culture for underrepresented communities across various regions. Previously, at The New York Community Trust, Salem held multiple positions, including Program Officer for Arts, Culture & Historic Preservation, managing various grantmaking initiatives and supporting marginalized artists. Earlier roles include Assistant Director for the Arts Research Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University, where Salem fostered faculty collaboration and community engagement, alongside positions in editorial research, grant coordination, and development writing. Salem holds a Master of Arts in Design Studies from Parsons School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University.
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Mellon Foundation
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation endeavors to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies. To this end, they support exemplary institutions of higher education and culture as they renew and provide access to an invaluable heritage of ambitious, path-breaking work.