About
Tobie S. Stein, Ph.D. is a sociologist and two-time Fulbright Specialist (Israel and Taiwan). She is the author of five books, including Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce (Routledge 2020) and Leadership in the Performing Arts (Allworth Press 2016). Art Movez, Brooklyn Savvy, Circus Talk, International Contemporary Ensemble, and New Books Network have invited her to speak about racial justice. She is the co-moderator with Toni Williams of "The Uncomfortable Book Club."
Current Work
Her new book Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce examines the systemic and institutional barriers and individual biases that continue to perpetuate a predominately White nonprofit performing arts workforce in the United States. Workforce diversity, for the purposes of this book, is defined as racial and ethnic diversity among workforce participants and stakeholders in the performing arts, including employees, artists, board members, funders, donors, educators, audience, and community members. The research explicitly uncovers the sociological and psychological reasons for inequitable workforce policies and practices within the historically White nonprofit performing arts sector, and it provides examples of the ways in which transformative leaders, sharing a multiplicity of cultural backgrounds, can collaboratively and collectively create and produce a culturally plural community-centered workforce in the performing arts.
Research Area Keyword(s)
access, diversity, Equity, nonprofit leadership, racial justice