Cathy McKee

As a public librarian and arts advocate Cathy McKee, now CJ Di Mento, (Psych) led the designation effort for, and is now leader of, one of California’s first cultural districts, the Oceanside Cultural District in Oceanside, California. The designation effort was a competitive process with state legislators naming only 14 districts in the entire state. She writes she is “working in a vibrant community to help increase opportunities for arts and culture to thrive equitably without generating displacement in a time when arts organizations are severely impacted by COVID-19.”