Christopher Mulé

Folk Arts Director

 

Email

[email protected]

phone

718-625-0080 x229

Christopher Mulé (Ma-LAY) currently serves as the director of folk arts at Brooklyn Arts Council. Concurrently, he is the project director for NYSCA Living Traditions, an initiative of the Folk Arts Program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) in partnership with City Lore, which produces and administers this site. He specializes in grant writing, community engagement, cultural documentation, public programming, and non-profit management. He earned his M.A in Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. In 2015, he received the Archie Green Fellowship from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress for his collaboration with Domestic Workers United, an organization of Caribbean, Latina, and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York that organizes for fair labor standards. He also serves on the advisory board at the Association for Culture Equity (ACE).