Director of Graduate Studies, MPS in Arts and Cultural Leadership; Interim Director of Graduate Studies, MPS in Civic Engagement
Tom Borrup is the founder of Creative Community Builders, working with cities, foundations, and nonprofits across the United States, leveraging cultural and creative assets for community revitalization and change. He served as executive director of Intermedia Arts, a multidisciplinary, multicultural community arts center in Minneapolis from 1980 to 2002. He is author of The Power of Culture in City Planning (2021), The Creative Community Builders’ Handbook (2006), coeditor of Democracy as Creative Practice (2024), and The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking (2021). His doctoral research addressed organizational and social networks in urban cultural districts. He holds a PhD in Leadership and Change from Antioch University.