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Alma Villegas
Senior Director of Development
Alma is a Development professional with extensive cross-sector experience in non-profit organizations, for-profit corporations, and government agencies. Alma specializes in strategic leadership by creating fundraising plans, managing and producing award-winning grants, producing annual galas and events, cultivating donor support and stewardship. As the previous Director of Development and Communications at the arts non-profit artworxLA, she […]
Shelby Williams-González
President & CEO
With 20 years of experience in the arts education field and 22 years as a professional dancer, Shelby Williams-González has a career made up of overlapping networks. Artist, educator, and leader pushing for social change. Shelby has taught dance and performing arts for LAUSD, as well as developed programs for non-profit organizations such as The […]
Ashley Margo
Lead Designer + Teaching Artist, Media Arts
Ashley loves exploring spatial relationships, color, and typography with students of all ages. She is a multimedia designer and art director who has been on teams that race against time in theaters and recording studios, collaborated to create winter wonderlands for television, summer camps and art classrooms for new media feature films, and worked on […]
Cynthia Nava
Teaching Artist, Visual & Media Arts
Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Cynthia Nava earned her BFA in Illustration from California State University, Long Beach. Cynthia is a teaching artist who loves to share her enthusiasm and love for art with her students. Her playful and colorful illustrations have been featured in various art shows and events in the […]
Abraham Aragundi
Data Specialist
Abraham Aaron Aragundi is an Artist and Arts advocate from Compton, California. During his youth, he was accepted to the Ryman Arts and California State Summer School for the Arts programs where he was able to grow as a visual artist focusing on color pencil, acrylic, oil painting and mixed media. Through these experiences, he […]