Dr. Alexandria Carrico and opera composer Frances Pollock, Yale University, discuss the possibilities for increased inclusion and diversity in opera programming and composition in the 21st century.  Through the collaborative organization Midnight Oil Collective, Pollock discusses strategies for creatively restructuring the institutions that traditionally fund artists and their works, thus encouraging increased diversity and inclusion in subject material, performers, composers, venues, and more. Pollock and her collaborators aim to make the "starving artist" framework a thing of the past.