Carol Coletta at BIF-1

Coletta, President and CEO of CEOs for Cities, is helping city leaders such as mayors, corporate CEOs, university presidents and foundation officials, to improve urban competitiveness.

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Carol Coletta

Carol Coletta is the president of ArtPlace, a collaboration of top national foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and various federal agencies to accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S.

Prior to ArtPlace, Coletta was president and CEO of CEOs for Cities and host and producer of the nationally syndicated public radio show Smart City. Before moving to Chicago to head CEOs for Cities, she served as president of Coletta & Company in Memphis. In addition, she served as executive director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, a partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, United States Conference of Mayors and American Architectural Foundation.

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