{"id":1271,"date":"2022-11-24T22:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsmidwest.org\/team\/emily-anderson\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:04:51","slug":"emily-anderson","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/artsmidwest.org\/team\/emily-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emily Anderson (she\/her) has been working at Arts Midwest since 2012 and is the Chief Administrative Officer. Before working in operations, she worked across programs at Arts Midwest. She started her nonprofit career at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hacanet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Housing Authority of the City of Austin<\/a> and then found her way into the arts by working for a quilt festival and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaversguildmn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Weavers Guild of Minnesota<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Arts Midwest, Emily spends her days nurturing a supportive organizational culture while navigating the day-to-day implementation of Arts Midwest&#8217;s operations strategy. She leads the operations team and oversees human resources, IT, and facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is particularly passionate about equity in the work environment and pay structure, and she works with the leadership team to develop policies, create systems, and test new ideas toward those goals. A recent example of this is implementing a <a href=\"https:\/\/artsmidwest.org\/about\/updates\/what-we-learned-four-day-work-week\/\">four-day work week<\/a>. She loves that her role connects her with every other team in the organization and that there is an opportunity to apply her broad range of skills, including facilitation, coaching, and creative problem-solving.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-little-more-about-emily\">A little more about Emily:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Emily is excited about Arts Midwest\u2019s commitment to work\/life harmony. She loves opportunities to share what Arts Midwest learned through <a href=\"https:\/\/artsmidwest.org\/resources\/ideas\/how-to-implement-a-four-day-work-week-at-your-organization\/\">implementing a four-day-workweek<\/a>. When Emily isn\u2019t working, she can be found gardening, taking walks by the river, or enjoying a sauna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can connect with her on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emily-anderson-2a61462b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/artsmidwest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Emily-Crop-2025-scaled.jpg\">Download Emily&#8217;s headshot<\/a> (Photo Credit: Michael Wellvang<\/em>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Anderson (she\/her) is the Chief Administrative Officer at Arts Midwest. 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