Mary Stephens founded InSite Consultants, an award-winning equity consulting group advancing institutional accountability through anti-racism and gender equity. She is currently the director of Border/Arte, a binational arts production organization. Formally trained in theatre, conflict resolution, and diplomacy, she works globally, utilizing arts-based practices as a cultural organizing tool toward policy change. Her curatorial work focuses on site-specific artistic interventions and bi-national relationships between Mexico and the United States, curating gatherings to address issues of race, migration, gender, climate change, and displacement. She co-founded the Binational Arts Residency program in its sixth year. She was the director of Performance in the Borderlands and on faculty at Arizona State University from 2012 - 2024. Her family owns the Phoenix Hostel & Cultural Center, an international arts-political hostel in Arizona. She splits her time between Oakland, CA, Phoenix, AZ, and the US/MX borderlands.
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