Ana Kolendo

Research Associate

Email: akolendo@mail.utexas.edu

Ana Kolendo is a Research Associate working on the cultural infrastructure project. The project, a collaboration between RGK and NORC at the University of Chicago, seeks to examine the rationale for and the impact of the recent museum and performing arts building boom. Before coming to the RGK Center, Ms. Kolendo was a Research Associate at Harvard Business School and a Business Analyst with McKinsey & Co. Her nonprofit experience includes teaching children imaginative writing for Badgerdog Literary Publishing in Austin. She has a BA in English from Swarthmore College and an MFA in fiction from Boston University. Her work has mostly recently appeared in Best New American Voices 2009.

In the News
The Wall Street Journal - 09/14/2011 Cultural Construction Slowdown

The cultural construction boom in North America has slowed. Is this merely a lull in a continuing trend? Or are we seeing the last gasp of major performing-arts-center construction for a while? Many of the cities that wanted better halls have completed them. And reports of economic distress among these new venues—which prompted the University of Chicago to study cultural infrastructure in the U.S.—have caused other communities to think twice before jumping on the bandwagon. Read the article >