Sage Crump

Sage Crump (she/her) is a culture strategist, artist, and movement facilitator who expands and deepens the relationship between the cultural sector and social justice organizing. Based in New Orleans but working nationally, she leverages creative practice and the cultural sector to transform systemic oppressions. Sage is a member of Complex Movements, a Detroit-based artist collective whose interdisciplinary work supports local and translocal visionary organizing. She is co-founder of The Kinfolk Effect (TKE), an incubation space for multimedia installation work that examines the movement of Blackness through time and space with artist muthi reed. Sage was an inaugural cultural strategy fellow at Opportunity Agenda and released a Cultural Strategy Toolkit. At NPN, she led Leveraging A Network for Equity (LANE) before founding the Department of Racial Justice & Movement Building in 2023; she was named Co-Executive Director in 2026. Sage is a former co-director of the Emergent Strategies Ideation Institute. She is a former member of LeftRoots, a member of the Guild of Future Architects, Women of Color in the Arts, and a board member with the Center for Cultural Innovation, Art2Action, Double Edge Theater, Change Elemental, and Mark-n-Sparks. Sage’s work incorporates movement history, complex sciences, emergent strategy, and creative practice to imagine the world we want to live in and build strategies and practices that will get us there.