Annie Lin

New Haven

Annie Lin (she/her/她) loves to be around artmaking and artmakers. She is the daughter of immigrants from Taiwan and a transplant to New Haven from Morro Bay, California. As the Director of Community Engagement and Strategies at the Yale School of Art, Annie explores intersections between community and creativity through partnerships. Annie currently serves on the boards of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and facilitates artist development programs. She was previously the Director of Arts Programs at Yale-China, where she founded the annual New Haven citywide Lunarfest celebration, built out a Hong Kong artist residency program with the Yale School of Drama, and established a New Haven Free Public Library advocacy program with Dwight Hall for monolingual Chinese residents in the New Haven area. Annie studied music as an undergraduate at Yale and received her master’s degree in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is passionate about cultural equity as an instrument of change.