Talia Berniker

Talia Berniker is a creative strategist and writer from Portland, OR with interests in cultural policy, creative production, legal studies, and political communication. Talia currently works as a Research Assistant at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and as a Graduate Fellow at the Center for Social Media and Politics at NYU. She is also a Graduate Admissions Assistant at NYU and serves on the Tisch Graduate Student Organization Board. Talia is a member of the Justice Initiative run in conjunction with the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard Univeristy School of Law and Harvard Law School's Systemic Justice Project and is on the Communications Team for The Confined Arts. When she isn't giving NYU campus tours, Talia loves creative writing and performing comedy.

What drew you to the M.A. in Arts Politics?

The M.A. in Arts Politics was the only program where I knew I would be encouraged to explore all my interests from law to comedy. I was looking for a program where I would be encouraged to write analytically and creatively alongside peers who wanted to root their own arts practices in a political context. Moreover, I loved the idea of studying with a tight-knit cohort where we could share, and build upon, our understandings of social justice, art, and community.