Milenko Matanovic

Milenko Matanovic, a self-described thinker, teacher and artist, is the founder of the Pomegranate Center. When Milenko moved to the United States in the 1970s, he saw growing suburban neighborhoods filled with traffic, waste and lack of imagination. It was from this concern that Pomegranate Center was founded – to bring the creative process to community problem solving. The Pomegranate Center has developed an effective model for helping communities prepare for the future using collective creativity, meaningful engagement and powerful collaboration. Milenko has worked with hundreds of communities across the United States and abroad, helped build more than 40 gathering places, spoken at universities, community gatherings and conferences, and trained community leaders in the Pomegranate Center model of community building.