Our Leadership
RUX is a values-based organization that uses a distributed leadership approach to movement building.
Staff
Savannah Barrett
Co-Founder, Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange
Exchange Director, Art of the Rural
Savannah Barrett co-founder of the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange. She is the Exchange Director of Art of the Rural, and she serves the board of the Center for Performance and Civic Practice, the Art of Community: Rural SC, and the Robert E. Gard Foundation. She has widely published essays and interviews. She holds a Masters of Arts Management from the University of Oregon, and is an alumnus of the Muhammad Ali Scholars for Peace and Justice at the University of Louisville and from the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. She previously guided programs for the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy, the Louisville Visual Art Association, the Oregon Folklife Network, and Paul Paletti Gallery. Savannah is a twelfth-generation Kentuckian and was raised in Grayson Springs, where she co-founded a local arts agency in high school. She is a proud steward of six acres of her homeplace and currently lives in Louisville.
2023 Steering Committee
Lauren Calhoun (Daviess County)
Joel Chapman (Warren County)
Annie Jane Cotten (Letcher/Knott/Floyd County)
Michael George (Jefferson County)
Taylor Killough Williams (Jefferson County)
Tyler McDaniel (Fayette County)
Nikita Perumal (Fayette County)
Olivia Spradlin (Fayette County)
Jessica Stevens (Estill County)
Azucena Trejo Williams (Taylor County)
