Who we are

Jill is an Associate Professor of Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky. She had a professional career in venue management (20+ years) prior to joining the ranks of academe and remains an active participant In the venue management industry. She has extensive experience working with organizations to figure out, improve, or measure their diversity and inclusion efforts. Jill has worked on previous data-driven collaborations including a quantitative citation analysis proving a gender disparity of publications of female and male scholars. Her diversity, inclusion, and belonging research extends nationally and internationally including publications in the American Journal of Arts Management and The International Journal of Community Diversity as well as presentations at the Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations Conference, industry webinars, and other academic conferences.

Yuha is a Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies of Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky. She has worked on a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects that are related to DEI issues in the field of arts and cultural management. She conducted visitor and non-visitor demographic studies both in 2015 and in 2019 resulting in a monograph, Transforming Museum Management: Evidence-Based Change through Open Systems Theory (2022). Yuha studies museums and social and cultural justice issues around the arts and cultural organizations. She is an associate editor for the journal Museum Management and Curatorship and a board member of the Bann Yun Lexington Korean Cultural Center. She co-edited a book, Systems Thinking in Museums: Theory and Practice (2017) and, with her co-editors, recently published The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management (2024).

Bex is an Assistant Professor of Arts Management at the College of Charleston and the Research Lead and Programming Consultant for Dance Data Project®, an organization that utilizes metric-based analysis to promote gender equity in the dance field. Ferrell has also served on advisory and grant panels throughout the US including the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, United States Artists, the Arts Education Partnership Council, and Virginians for the Arts, where she was a member of the Legislative Committee. Their research interests focus on equitable practices in the dance sector, specifically traditional transactional procedures, labor rights, pay equity, and performing arts unions.