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- I'm Claire Ruud.
I'm the director of curatorial strategy
at the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Chicago.
There are a lot of women in the arts,
and we are not always in
the positions of power.
I was running a small
contemporary art space in Austin, Texas.
I loved it.
It was super DIY.
I was making $30,000 a year,
and the financial crisis hit.
I thought, you know, I can help artists
by being a good curator,
but if I figure out how to
manage people and money,
I am really gonna figure
out how to help artists.
So, I decided to go to business school.
My job is to take artistic vision
and find the business strategy.
It's really important to me
to be involved with Forté,
because I am interested
in seeing more women
with intersectional identities
in positions of power in our world,
the way that we connect
women to each other
in situations where we
often feel alienated,
or outnumbered, or confused,
or discriminated against.
And what Forté does is provide a network
so that we can support
each other individually
to succeed and change the world
so that the dynamics of gender
are different in the workplace.
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