Sage Crump
Sage Crump is a culture strategist, artist and facilitator who expands and deepens the work of cultural workers, and arts organizations in social justice organizing. Based in New Orleans, but working nationally, she believes in leveraging art, creative practice, and the cultural sector to transform systemic oppressions. Crump is also member of Complex Movements, a Detroit-based artist collective whose interdisciplinary work supports local and translocal visionary organizing. She is principal and co-founder, with artist muthi reed, of The Kinfolks Effect (TKE) Studio. TKE studios is an incubation space for multimedia interdisciplinary artwork that examines the movement of Blackness through time and space.
Crump is the Program Specialist at the National Performance Network managing a program that supports arts organizations of color, LANE (Leveraging A Network for Equity). Crump holds the position of chief architect at the Emergent Strategies Ideation institute, a body that shapes the way movements think about and go about transforming the world we live in. She is a member of LeftRoots, Guild of Future Architects, Alternate ROOTS, and sits on the board of Media Justice. Crump’s work incorporates complex sciences, emergent strategy, and creative practice to imagine the world we want to live in and build strategies and practices that will get us there.[1]
Supporting Cazembe
When Cazembe Jackson became the new National Organizer for Freedom Road Socialist Organization in July 2016, Sage Crump was supportive, on his Facebook page.