Elizabeth Grady, PhD, is the programs director of A Blade of Grass, and a curator, critic, and scholar of socially engaged art. She was program manager of smARTpower, a US State Department program run by the Bronx Museum that sent artists to fifteen countries to do projects that engaged local communities (2010-2012). She served in the curatorial departments of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and San Francisco MoMA. She did independent projects for the Moscow Biennial, the Biennial of the Canary Islands, and the Havana Biennial. She taught at FIT-SUNY in Art History and the Graduate School from 2002-2013. Among her many essays, articles, and other publications, the most recent book was Ten Dinners in Havana (2013).