Paul Sznewajs is founding Executive Director of Ingenuity, a public-private arts strategy, advocacy and grant-making entity that ensures the arts are a central component of U.S. public education. Under Paul’s leadership, Ingenuity has driven the most progress in Chicago arts education in nearly four decades, increasing arts access, quality and equity for hundreds of thousands of students every year. Ingenuity received the 2013 Chicago Innovation Award as one of the city’s ten most innovative companies. Paul also received Boeing’s 2013 Game Changer Award, cited as the city’s arts and cultural leader who effected greatest change in the sector that year.

Paul has forged working partnerships and alliances with numerous city departments, the Chicago Board of Education, and almost every major cultural institution in Chicago. He is currently leading the implementation of a groundbreaking arts data and mapping platform with growing national implications.

With nearly two decades of senior leadership experience in the arts and philanthropic sectors, Paul has a track record of building, launching, and evaluating complex cultural social sector initiatives. He has worked closely on large-scale arts initiatives with national luminaries including Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming, Damian Woetzel, Theaster Gates, Chance the Rapper and others, while engaging political leadership ranging from the White House to the Office of the Mayor along the way.