Carron Little

Executive Director

Carron is an educator, poet, artist, and scholar working at the intersection of public policy, public engagement, artivist projects with a focus on racial and gender inclusion. Carron has spent most of her professional career working in Education at Universities, High Schools, and Elementary Schools. She brings a wealth knowledge of writing curriculum, developing workshops and providing differentiated teaching and learning skills. For the last decade she has created projects that have activated history through poetry in local communities. Celebrated projects include Neighborhood Magic for Beverly, Chicago and Spare Rib Revisited for Lucerne, Switzerland.

Carron received a feminist education from Katy Deepwell and Peninna Barnett at Goldsmiths College, University of London U.K. graduating with a First Class Honors Degree and received her Masters from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). In 2018 Carron was elected to the national committee for Women in the Arts for the College Arts Association. Whilst on this Committee she dreamt up the Fifty | Fifty Initiative that was co-written by Stephanie Sparling-Williams, Basia Sliwinska and Kalliopi Minioudaki and was a national policy for racial and gender equity.

Since 2016 Carron has organized International Women's Day events in Chicago at Chicago Cultural Center and WomenMade Gallery. Working with an international collective of women she organizes the annual symposium Flow • embody in site developing cross-cultural partnerships internationally and most recently she published a catalog about an exhibition at the University of Lincoln, U.K. and has two upcoming academic publications coming out this fall.

As Executive Director of Chicago Women’s History Center, Carron was the convener of Past and Present Strategies to Advance the Rights of Women, hosts field trips and workshops at the Center for neighboring Universities and Schools, coordinating programs and events at the Center in collaboration with the CWHC Board and works on development for the organization.