Team – Sidra Collaborative

Meet our team

The Sidra Collaborative founders bring a combined 65 years of interdisciplinary experience in the arts, culture, and humanities.

While working as grantmakers at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), we recognized the need for transformative thinking about how we fund cultural organizations and their work.

In addition to our experience in federal funding, we have worked in museums, libraries, and higher education.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams

Co-Founder | she/they

Hannah is a writer, scholar, and administrator. At NEH, she helped lead the development of data and assessment programs for grantmaking in the humanities. She is based in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Lola Clairmont

Co-Founder | they/she

Lola has dedicated their professional career to pursuing equity in arts and culture. A certified Federal Grant Manager based in Washington, DC, Lola has managed awards and implemented nationwide grant programs for cultural federal agencies and in the private sector.

Hadassah St. Hubert

Co-Founder | she/her

Hadassah is a historian, digital humanist, preservationist, and artist supporter with over a decade of experience working with artists, scholars, and cultural heritage workers.

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Martin Tsang

Co-Founder | he/him

Martin is a cultural anthropologist and religious studies scholar with over a decade of experience in libraries, archives, and curatorial work. He is also a transdisciplinary bead artist and researcher specializing in material religion and Asian diasporas in the Americas.