Corrina Lesser

Corrina Lesser is a multi-disciplinary public programmer from upstate New York. After beginning her career in book publishing at Houghton Mifflin Co. in Boston, she moved to Boulder, Colorado to work for the Summer Writing Program at Naropa, the Buddhist university founded by the poets Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. From there she served as the director of programming and planning for Chicago Humanities, the largest public humanities organization in the country. In 2015, she made her way westward to become the founding artistic director of Scripps Presents, the College's public programming series. She is currently an Arts & Culture Supervisor with the City of Beverly Hills, where she focuses on cultural programming and partnership development for the City. She also serves on the steering committee for the Los Angeles Cultural District Networks. A graduate of Brandeis University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she lives in Santa Monica with her family.