CLIENTS
Afro Urban Society (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Writing Consultant
Afro Urban Society is a non-profit organization of cultural creatives dedicated to boosting art, media, and the tough-but-necessary conversations relevant to the African diaspora.
AXIS Dance Company (Berkeley, CA)
Grant Writing Consultant 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.
Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (San Francisco, CA)
Center for Asian American Media (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Writing Consultant
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 Writing Consultant
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.
Cuicacalli (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Writing Consultant
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.
Grant Proposal Coach
Dance/USA champions an inclusive and equitable dance field by leading, convening, advocating, and supporting individuals and organizations. Dance/USA’s core programs are focused in the areas of engagement, advocacy, research, and preservation.
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.
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.
Intersection for the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Specialist
Intersection provides people in arts and culture with resources to grow.
MKArts (Washington, DC Metro Area)
Grant Writing Consultant
MKArts devises intergenerational dance performance rituals that are place-honoring, and accountable to community partners. Moving from a spirit of joy and ease, our community building amplifies the lives, stories and wisdom of Black, queer, women and gender expansive folks.
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.
Peacock Rebellion (Oakland, CA)
Grant Writing Consultant
Peacock Rebellion is an SF Bay Area -based, queer + trans people of color crew of artist-activist-healers. We make sassy sexy art to help build a culture of social justice, with an emphasis on healing justice.
RADAR Productions (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Writing Consultant
An SF incubator & platform for QTBIPOC literary artists, RADAR is a Bay Area queer literary arts organization creating and supporting a community of queer and trans artists through commissioning, developing and presenting ground-breaking literary work. Our programs include SHOW US YOUR SPINES a monthly residency with the Hormel Center at the SFPL; The legendary Sister Spit tour and a yearly literary and visual arts collaboration with local community spaces.
Grant Writing Consultant
Seyi Adebanjo, MFA, is a Queer Gender-Non-Conforming Nigerian artist who raises awareness around social issues through video, ritual, photography and writing workshops.
United States Artists (Chicago, IL)
Fellows Arts Consultant
United States Artists believes in artists and their essential role in our society.
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.
Yat/Bentley Centre for Performance, CA
Grant Writing Consultant
The Yat/Bentley Centre for Performance was founded by Tom Bentley-Fisher to offer professional training in Yat Malmgren’s groundbreaking work for actors, directors, dancers and writers.
Instructor
Zoo Labs empowers Black, Indigenous, and people of color to own and amplify their music projects. We bridge the worlds of art and business by providing global access to artist-tailored entrepreneurial training. We also provide Bay Area BIPOC musicians with unrestricted funding and the support of a strong creative community.