Daria Yudacufski

Daria Yudacufski is an arts leader, advocate, writer, publisher, and independent producer who has amplified the connections between the arts and social justice for more than three decades. In 2006, she launched Visions and Voices at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, serving as its founding executive director until July 2026. Under her leadership, the university’s signature arts and humanities initiative produced more than 100 events and projects annually, many developed in collaboration with campus and community partners. Committed to accessibility, student development, and public engagement, she made all Visons and Voices events free to audiences, welcoming the USC and broader Southern California communities to dance performances, concerts, theatrical productions, film screenings and festivals, lectures, conversations, and workshops featuring leading artists, scholars, and cultural innovators. 

Previously, Daria served as the director of the Cross Cultural Centers at California State University, Los Angeles, and the programming director of the MultiCultural Center and Women’s Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is co-editor of Feminisms in Motion: Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation, and she co-founded and published the independent feminist magazine make/shift for ten years. She currently serves on the Association of Performing Arts Professionals Conference Committee and the National Dance Project Advisory Panel and has also served on the Western Arts Alliance L.A. Host Committee and the executive committee of Arts Administrators in Higher Education.

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