Carron Little
Executive Director
Carron is an educator, scholar, and researcher working at the intersection of public policy, public engagement, artivist projects with a focus on racial and gender inclusion. Carron has spent most of her professional career working in Education that included working for organizations like Changing Worlds, Young Chicago Authors, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago and have held different roles at these organizations. Educated in London U.K. for her undergraduate degree and SAIC for a MFA she studied with seminal feminists like Katy Deepwell and Peninna Barnett. She is committed to an ethos of feminist research and dissemination of knowledge. In 2018 Carron was elected to the national committee for Women in the Arts for the College Arts Association. Whilst on this Committee she dreamt up the Fifty | Fifty Initiative that was co-written by Stephanie Sparling-Williams, Basia Sliwinska and Kalliopi Minioudaki. This was successfully implemented for this national academic organization at CAA 2020 in honor of the Centennial Year of Women’s Suffrage in the U.S. A party was organized to celebrate this occasion at Columbia College, Chicago. Last Spring 2023, I received an invitation to be a Visiting Associate Lecturer at the University of Lincoln in the U.K. teaching M.A. and undergraduate students in the Fall.
Carron has had the great honor of working with Mary Ann Johnson, Co-Founder of CWHC as a freelancer since 2016 initially working on a research project about the Chicago women’s collective Women Mobilized for Change that became a performance touring the Chicago parks cultivating community conversations and a documentary film. Most recently, she built the CWHC website and worked on the video edits for the oral history project that lives on the website.
In addition to Carron’s work with Chicago Women’s History Center she has organized International Women's Day events in Chicago since 2016 at Chicago Cultural Center and WomenMade Gallery. Working with an international collective of women she organizes the annual symposium Flow • embody in site developing cross-cultural partnerships internationally. Currently, She is currently working on the editing of a scholarly publication called 8 Acts of Love that presents texts inspired by Out of Site Chicago's public performance art archive.
From an early age Carron was involved in the Youth Peace Movement in the U.K. and founded Bradford’s Youth Peace Group and was invited to be the Regional Representative of Yorkshire and Humberside YCND. While living in London she was part of Women’s collective Art Not War and is committed to peace and justice work.
“I am deeply honored to be appointed as the new Executive Director for Chicago Women’s History Center and to carry the legacy of Mary Ann Johnson and the founder, Jean S. Hunt as we move forward into this new space. I wish to engage in an open dialogue with the members of CWHC and the community about how the Center can be of service for future generations of women in the Chicagoland Area. We are collectively embarking on a new chapter and we want your input in shaping our next phase.” from Carron Little
