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Shaina Kahn (she/her) is a storyteller and nonprofit professional based in Atlanta, Georgia. She currently serves as Development Manager at Out of Hand Theater, an Atlanta arts-based community engagement nonprofit that works at the intersection of art, social impact, and civic engagement—creating programs that combine art to open hearts, information to open minds, and conversation to inspire action around some of our community’s most pressing issues. From homelessness, to racism as a public health crisis, to immigrant detention, Out of Hand develops arts programming in partnership with community leaders and delivers it in community venues. This innovative model has earned Out of Hand, a mid-sized local theater company, national and international attention, including recently being named the “Best Theater in America” by ArtsJournal and serving as a case study in research published in the Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society, the International Journal of Arts Management, the Journal of Qualitative Health Research, and a Harvard Business School case study.
Outside of work, Shaina is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans visual arts, performance, literature, and film. She holds a BA in Film from Emory University, with a concentration of documentary filmmaking exploring underrepresented stories. She is queer, disabled, and living with Complex PTSD, and has additional training in trauma-informed storytelling, ethical ethnographic filmmaking, arts-based science communication, transformative changemaking, Kingian nonviolence, and arts-based activism. These experiences ground her commitment to ethical storytelling, collective healing, and centering the voices of those most impacted by harm.
