Beka economopoulos biography

  • Beka Economopoulos (born ) is an American artist and director of the art, activism, technology, and theory non-profit "Not An Alternative".
  • Beka Economopoulos is an American artist and director of the art, activism, technology, and theory non-profit "Not An Alternative".
  • Beka is a co-founder and Director of The Natural History Museum, where she serves as lead partnership developer, program director, communications strategist.

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    Beka Economopoulos

    American artist and activist (born )

    Beka Economopoulos (born ) is an American artist and director of the art, activism, technology, and theory non-profit "Not An Alternative". She is a co-founder and director of a traveling pop-up museum, The Natural History Museum, as well as an organizer of the March for Science.

    Personal life

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    Economopoulos was educated at Holton-Arms School and Northwestern University.[1] She is married to Jason Jones. They have one child, and they live in Vashon, Washington.[2]

    Career

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    An environmental justice activist since about , Economopoulos was a co-founder of The Natural History Museum in ,[3] a traveling museum and museum transformation project highlighting sociopolitical forces that shape nature, which The New York Times and ArtNet named "Best in Art in ".[4][5] She is a founding member of Not An Alternative, a social justice arts collective,[6] and she was a co-organizer and Board Member of the March for Science in [7] She is a sustainability advocate, and has been Director of Online Organizing at Greenpeace and the Director of Strategy at Fission Strategy. In those positions she worked with the Global Climate Change Alliance and

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    Beka Economopoulos

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    Beka Economopoulos

    Biography

    According to her profile at the Roddenberry Fellowship:[1]

    "Beka Economopoulos has been an environmental justice activist for nearly 20 years. She is a co-founder of The Natural History Museum, a traveling museum and museum transformation project, a founding member of the social justice arts collective Not An Alternative, and co-organizer and Board Member of the March for Science. Beka’s experience in sustainability advocacy includes serving as the Director of Online Organizing at Greenpeace, and as the Director of Strategy at Fission Strategy, where clients included the United Nations Foundation and the Global Climate Change Alliance.
    "Beka co-created the museum in as a project of Not An Alternative, a non-profit organization that has worked at the intersection of art, activism, and pedagogy since Not An Alternative was recently named in the NY Times and ArtNet’s “Best in Art in ” round-ups. The group’s installations, performances, and presentations have been featured within art institutions such as Guggenheim, PS1/MOMA, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Tate Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum, MOCAD, and Museo del Arte Moderno, and in the publ