Kristy Callaway has served from March 2008 to present as executive director for the Arts Schools Network, which is a non-profit association founded in 1981, dedicated to serving arts schools leaders. Previously, Kristy was fine arts coordinator and director of curriculum development for a 20,000-student school district, Beaufort County, South Carolina, from 1999-2008. Kristy has been recognized by South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, the National School Board Association and the Kennedy Center for excellence in arts education; and the South Carolina Consortium for Gifted Education for professional development. She has served on panels and made presentations at annual meetings for the Arts Education Partnership; the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education and Partners in Education; Magnet Schools of America; and the Northwest Evaluation Association. She is a co-founder of the South Carolina Formative Assessment Literacy Group. Kristy has given numerous keynotes, commencements, professional development sessions, and has taught dozens of graduate courses on arts education, arts integration, creativity, formative assessment and research, gifted and talented education and strategic planning. Kristy is the immediate past-president of the South Carolina Alliance for Arts Education; she served on the South Carolina Arts Alliance board of directors from 1999-2009 and on The Arts in the Basic Curriculum steering committee from 2005-2009. Currently, Kristy is serving on the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education National Leadership Committee. Kristy has earned a bachelor’s in art history and criticism from Florida State University, and master’s degrees in the arts in teaching, public administration and gifted & talented education from the University of South Carolina, College of Charleston and Converse College.