Kenny Smilovitch is Director at the JVS Chicago Duman Entrepreneurship Center where he helps aspiring entrepreneurs develop business plans and identify project funding. He has worked with the Arts division of the Government of the Northwest Territories, and at Desrosiers Dance Theatre in Toronto, and is a lecturer in in the department of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kenny also plays guitar and has received awards from the Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des letters du Quebec.