Carlton Turner

Carlton Turner is a cultural organizer from Utica, Mississippi and the Executive Director of Alternate ROOTS, a regional non-profit arts organization based in the south supporting artists working at the intersection of arts and social justice. In 2013 Carlton was named to the Kennedy Center Honors Artist Advisory Board. He is currently on the board of Appalshop, First People’s Fund, and Imagining America, and is an advisory member to the National Theater Project at New England Foundation for Policy Link’s Arts, Culture and Equitable Development Initiative.