{"id":6492,"date":"2016-11-29T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T19:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/?page_id=6492"},"modified":"2019-05-06T09:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:52:17","slug":"raksak-kongseng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/alumni\/alumni-profiles\/raksak-kongseng\/","title":{"rendered":"Raksak Kongseng Desaulniers (&#8217;18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/raksak-kongseng-85b591101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/alumni\/alumni-spotlight\/raksak-kongseng18\/\">Alumni Spotlight Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raksak traveled 3,000 miles from Seattle to pursue a master\u2019s degree in Arts Administration at Boston University and earned the degree in May 2018. Back in Thailand, she earned her B.A. in Dramatic Arts from Chulalongkorn University.<\/p>\n<p>Raksak took on managerial roles in several international events, including Film Expo Asia 2010, the annual French-Thai cultural festival \u2018La F\u00eate 2011,\u2019 the Rotary International Convention 2012, and the Research Forum &amp; Festival of Thai\/ASEAN Contemporary Theatre \u2018Our Roots Right Now.\u2019 She later became a performing arts project manager at the Customs Department of Thailand. She also founded a nonprofit theatre company called \u2018XXX,\u2019 and employed the theatre arts to promote human rights and instigate social change across the region. As a result of her arts activism, she was invited to participate in the \u2018Regional Dialogue on LGBTI Rights and Health in Asia and the Pacific\u2019 by the United Nations Development Program in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently working as a operations and special projects manager at Theater Communications Group (TCG) in New York and is the founder of Thai Theatre Foundation (TTF). Her pervious role includes office administrator at the Theater Offensive, assisting them in combating homophobia in the Boston area, particularly LGBT+ youth of color.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cBoston University\u2019s Arts Administration program perfectly suits my needs. The program not only enriches my understandings of the art world, but also expands my horizon in the realms of financial management and legal practice related to the arts. These skills are of great importance to arts administrators who, most of the time, are trained solely in the arts. The program also offers a flexible schedule to accommodate working professionals. The fascinating result is that students can immediately bring in knowledge to their work and, at the same time, bring back the most up-to-date challenges to discuss in class.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn Alumni Spotlight Interview Raksak traveled 3,000 miles from Seattle to pursue a master\u2019s degree in Arts Administration at Boston University and earned the degree in May 2018. Back in Thailand, she earned her B.A. in Dramatic Arts from Chulalongkorn University. Raksak took on managerial roles in several international events, including Film Expo Asia 2010, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12476,"featured_media":0,"parent":2587,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13918,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6492\/revisions\/13918"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}