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CLIENTS
AXIS Dance Company (Berkeley, CA)
Grant Specialist and Choreo-Lab Development Coach
AXIS collaborates with disabled and non-disabled artists to create world-class productions that challenge perceptions of dance and disability.
Center for Asian American Media (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Specialist
Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible.
Chrysalis Studio/Queer Ancestors Project (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Specialist
The Queer Ancestors Project is devoted to forging sturdy relationships between LGBTQI people and our ancestors. Using history as a linchpin, we build community by providing Queer and Trans artists, age 18 to 26, free interdisciplinary workshops in printmaking, writing, and Queer history. Public exhibitions and readings of their work provide a window on the past through which the larger community can glimpse our collective future.
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Cuicacalli (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Specialist
Cuicacalli (House of Culture) is a year-round youth dance program, based at Brava Theater in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District-the ​​unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. Founded in 2008 by renowned international performer Jesus “Jacoh” Cortes, Cuicacalli is an international, cross-cultural, dance-arts educational institution, providing Indigenous, Ballet Folklórico, and Contemporary Dance programs.
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Foglifter Press (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Specialist & Strategic Planning Consultant
Rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area, Foglifter Press is a platform for LGBTQ+ writers that supports and uplifts powerful, intersectional, and transgressive queer and trans writing through publication and public readings to build and enrich our communities as well as the greater literary arts. Rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area, Foglifter Press is a platform for LGBTQ+ writers that supports and uplifts powerful, intersectional, and transgressive queer and trans writing through publication and public readings to build and enrich our communities as well as the greater literary arts.
Grant Specialist & Strategic Planning Consultant
Founded in 2018 by Krystal Mack, In Absence Of Design (IAO Design) is a Baltimore-based social design studio focused on food, play, and the more-than-human world. Centering food and nature as vehicles for sociopolitical education and community empowerment, the work produced through IAO Design takes many forms, including immersive dinners, art publications, and culinary interventions, all created to reveal our hidden bonds with one another and our environment.
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Independent Arts & Media (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Specialist & Development and Strategic Planning Coach
Independent Arts & Media believes that diverse voices and free expression are a cultural necessity. Through a combination of personalized attention, professional expertise, and an active network, IAM provides fiscal sponsorship services to support Affiliate Projects. For over 20 years, for more than 200 organizations and projects, IAM has been a partner in bringing powerful works to community.
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Intersection for the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
Grants Manager
Intersection provides people in arts and culture with resources to grow.
Grants Coach
Justice Outside advances racial justice and equity in the outdoor and environmental movement. We shift resources to, build power with, and center the voices and leadership of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color because the health of current and future generations demands it.
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NAKA Dance Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Strategic Planning and Finance Consultant
Founded in 2001, NAKA Dance Theater creates experimental performance works using dance, storytelling, multimedia installations and site-specific environments.
Nava Dance Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Specialist
Nava Dance Theatre, currently under the artistic direction of Dr. Nadhi Thekkek, uses bharatanatyam dance, experimental movement, and live music to navigate the complicated intersections of racism, feminism, and identity. Past work has delved into unheard refugee voices, the #metoo movement, and a number of other social justice issues. We explore contemporary history, witness statements, interviews, documentaries, news reports - all with the goal of using bharatanatyam movement vocabulary to serve urgent community narratives.
Queer Rebels Productions (San Francisco, CA)
Strategic Planning Consultant
Showcasing LGBTQ+ artists of color. Connecting generations & genres. Honoring our Queer legacies with visionary art for the future.
United States Artists (Chicago, IL)
Fellows Arts Consultant
United States Artists believes in artists and their essential role in our society.
Urban Jazz Dance Company (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Specialist
Urban Jazz Dance Company is a convergence of artistic forces where RAW energy, ROOTED in FREEDOM, is expressed through the athletic BODY and UNCONTROLLABLE, PASSIONATE dance. The company's MISSION is to show the world that no matter who you are, your dreams are possible.
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World Arts West (San Francisco, CA)
Co-Creator and Co-Director of Grants Accelerator Program
World Arts West is a regional presenting and artist service organization that supports Northern California artists and dance companies who sustain the world’s dance and music traditions. World Arts West supports over 450 dance companies that engage 20,000 artists, sustaining over 100 unique cultures from around the world. In the last four decades, World Arts West’s constituency has grown from a grassroots community of cultural artists to the largest world dance network in the United States.