
Training leaders to impact communities.
NALAC’s leadership program equips artists, administrators and cultural workers with tools to transform their personal creative practice, affect policy, and impact the communities they serve.
NALAC Leadership Programs.
Save the Date: 2024 NALAC Leadership Institute
The application for the 2024 NALAC Leadership Institute (NLI) is opening on December 1, 2023! The NLI is a week-long fellowship that brings non-profit arts administrators and cultural workers together from across the nation for intensive training in leadership and management capacity.
Building strong administrative, artistic, and social practices.
The Latinx arts and culture community has identified leadership development and mentorship as a high-level priority. Through its leadership program, NALAC builds leadership and professional skills among artists and those working in the arts and culture field.

Meet our Leadership Alumni.
Our leadership Alumni come from all across the nation and Puerto Rico. To date, 751 artist and arts administrators have graduated from our intensive training programs rooted in the Latinx historical experiences.
Consider participating.
Leadership fellows are inter-generational leaders, practitioners, teachers, and social advocates in various stages of their careers. They represent different Latinidades, approaches, and experiences.
The 2023 Application Deadline has passed. For announcements and new opportunities, subscribe to our E-Boletin newsletter

Pioneering an intercultural approach.
ILI is a year-long intercultural leadership program for artists, culture bearers and other arts professionals. ILI is a collaborative program of Alternate ROOTS, First Peoples Fund, National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC) and PA’I Foundation.
(WEAreILI.org is a separately hosted site)
