Board of Advisors
Mariah Rankine-Landers
Founder and Co-Executive Director of Studio Pathways, Mariah has been a professional facilitator and liberatory educator for over twenty years. This serves as a template for healthy collectivism in action. Mariah has co-designed creative pedagogy including Rise Up: An American Curriculum, The Othering and Belonging Institute out of UC Berkeley, The Center for Cultural Power, and the WKKF Foundation (Racial Healing). As former Co-Director of the School Transformation Through the Arts and Integrated Learning Specialist Program out of the Alameda County Office of Education, research outcomes of her work found conclusively that "Creativity leads to Empathy". As Studio Pathways, they have partnered with Stanford Live, U.C. Berkeley, Oakland Museum of California, Turnaround Arts (National and California), Carnegie Hall's Create Justice, Zaretta Hammond, Mia Birdsong, Cilker Conference, CCSESA, ArtCorp, Santa Clara and Solano County Offices of Ed, among others.
In recent years, Mariah Rankine-Landers has been a fellow for the National Arts Strategies Harvard Business Program, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Harvard’s Project Zero. She was featured on The Electric Company (PBS), The Teaching Channel, Education.com, Teaching Artists Guild, and Happy Black Girl. She co-founded Canerow, a resource and database of literature for children of color written by authors of color. She is a founding board member of Chapter 510, a writing center for youth in Oakland, having served for 7 years. She still studies tap dance, which has been a lifelong love affair.