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WXOX @ Folklife 2025 Stephen Reily STEPHEN REILY Attorney, Entrepreneur, Civic Leader Interviewed by Max Selby WXOX Next Wave Academy June 2025 Ahead of the 2025 Smithsonian Folkife Festival, members of the WXOX Next Wave Academy interviewed local influencers and spoke with them about the festival theme "Youth and the Future of Culture". Louisville attorney, influencer, and former director of the Speed Art Musuem, Stephen Reily joined high Max Selby in studio and to provide insight and ideas ahead of Next Wave team's departure for the festival! ABOUT STEPHEN REILY: Stephen Reily is an attorney, entrepreneur and civic leader in Louisville, Kentucky.  After clerking for the U.S. Supreme Court and practicing law, he founded IMC Licensing, a global leader in brand licensing that has generated over $6 billion in consumer product sales for the Fortune 500 brands it represents.  An art collector and arts patron, he answered a call in 2017 to serve as Director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, and for more than four years he led the institution under a new mission to “invite everyone to celebrate art forever.”  In 2017 he created the Reily Reentry Project in partnership with the Louisville Urban League and its leader, Sadiqa Reynolds, to support expungement programs for citizens of Kentucky.  He serves on the Boards of Creative Capital, a leading grantmaker in the arts, the American Federation for Arts, the Greater Louisville Project, the James Graham Brown Foundation, and LHOME.  Past Board services includes the Louisville Urban League, Muhammad Ali Center, the Speed Art Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Downtown Development Corporation (Louisville), Christ Church Cathedral (Louisville), Louisville Collegiate School, American Life & Accident Insurance Co. of Kentucky, Inc., and Hardscuffle, Inc. Stephen is married to Louisville native Emily Bingham, an historian, civic leader and author, most recently, of My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song.  In 2022 Emily and Stephen were jointly awarded the Blanche B. Ottenheimer Award, the highest honor awarded by the Jewish Community of Louisville. Visit Stephen Reily's Website Visit The 2025 Folklife Festival Website Find Smithsonian Folkife on Facebook Follow Smithsonian Folklife Festival on Instagram Check out Smithsonian Folklife Festival on YouTube Return to WXOX / Folklife 2025 Episode List              WXOX General Manager: Sharon Scott WXOX Chief Operator: Sean Selby WXOX Next Wave Director: Max $ Selby WXOX Audio Editor: Brian Manley If you have any questions please e-mail nextwave@artxfm.com

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