Steven Lavine spent 29 years of his working life as the president of California Institute of the Arts –  CALARTS. Having grown up in a small Wisconsin town, Steven could not wait to go out into the world. As he puts it, invoking his distant cousin Bob Dylan, he wanted to explore where the wind was blowing. After attending Ivy League institutions and becoming a professor for a while, he landed a job at the Rockefeller Foundation to discover the possibility that elite institutions could be instrumental in bringing about social change. His next job, as the president of Calarts, afforded him the dream of trying this idea out for himself. 

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