Sanjit Sethi (elected 2020) is an artist, educator, curator, and cultural leader whose work across local, national, and international contexts has focused on the intersections of culture, equity, education, and community. For over two decades, he has worked across higher education, philanthropy, public practice, and institutional transformation, advancing equity-centered strategies and supporting artists, cultural workers, and creative communities.

Sethi is currently the Head of Campus at Green School Bali and has served as President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His previous roles include Director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University; Director of the Center for Art and Public Life, Barclay Simpson Professor, and Chair of Community Arts at California College of the Arts; and Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute. He has also taught at Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology; MIT; and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sethi is regularly invited to contribute to critical dialogues on culture, equity, education, philanthropy, and community. His public work explores the role of creative leadership and its relationship to addressing inequity and building more just and imaginative communities.

Sethi received a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Georgia, and an MS in Advanced Visual Studies from MIT. He has received grants and fellowships from organizations including the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the Fulbright Program. As an artist and curator, his projects have addressed memory, migration, place, and public life through work including Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance, Richmond Voting Stories, The Gypsy Bridge Project, Spiked: The Unpublished Political Cartoons of Rob Rogers, and 6.13.89: The Cancelling of the Mapplethorpe Exhibition.