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 California Dance Institute, A Place Called Home and the L.A. Opera’s Education Program. As the previous Executive Director of artworxLA, Shelby dedicated her work to creatively educating alternative high school teenagers with sustained arts exposure and immersion. She believes that investing human and financial resources around our young people is necessary for LA’s youth to evolve as unique individuals and flourish as creative adults.
Shelby has participated in numerous professional development programs focusing on leadership and cross sector work. In 2013, she was part of L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce Southern California Leadership Network – Leadership L.A. In 2015, Shelby participated in the Durfee LEAD Program with a residency at the Downtown Women's Center. Shelby has also participated in trainings through the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond in 2018 and 2019 looking at systemic racism and oppression and tactical strategies for community organizing. Shelby is a member of the 2016 Courage to Lead Cohort and the 2018 Next Leaders Development Program through the Center for Nonprofit Management.
As a professional dancer, Shelby has been a member of the national touring and critically acclaimed Afro-Brazilian dance company Viver Brasil since 2006 as a dancer and choreographer for the company. Viver Brasil is a community of professional artists dedicated to honoring the African legacy through contemporary dance theater, utilizing Afro-Brazilian dance and music in performance, arts education, and community and cultural exchange programs. Her most recent work with the company, “Revealed,” explored the intersection of traditional Orixa (Afro-Brazilian Deities) dance and current racial and social inequities resulting in over-policed communities and mass killings of black bodies both in the United States and Brazil.
Shelby serves on the Board of Directors for the Arts for Healing and Justice Network, an interdisciplinary collaborative that provides exceptional arts programming in order to build resiliency and wellness, eliminate recidivism, and transform the juvenile justice system.
Shelby also serves on the Board of Directors of Suarez Dance Theater and is a member of the Los Angeles' Chapter for the Undoing Racism Collective.
She holds a B.A. in Dance and Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and is a proud native Angelino, mom, wife, and avid shoe shopper!
Leadership & Staff

Justine Adeboyejo
Teaching Artist, Visual Arts
Matías Anaya
Teaching Artist, Music

Nancy Avila
Accounting Supervisor
Ernest Baker
Teaching Artist, Dance
Eugenia Barbuc
Teaching Artist, Creativity Lab
Giselle Barrios
Programs Coordinator

Joanna Berkowitz
Program Coordinator

Wendy Cruz
H.R. Generalist
Amy Cuenco
Director of Finance
Daniel Curtis
Teaching Artist, Photography
Amanda Edwards
Associate Director of Communications
Zion El-Amin
Teaching Artist, Dance
George Garcia
EVP & Chief Operating Officer
Joseph Henderson
Teaching Artist, Performing Arts

Victoria Imo
Visiting Faculty, ArtCenter
Holly Le
Staff Accountant
Jovonie Leonard
Teaching Artist, Dance
Ángel Macias
Teaching Artist, Mixed Media



Orlando Moreno
Outreach + Programs Manager

Adrian Noriega
Program Coordinator
Josh Pedregon
Teaching Artist, Music

Rob Ramsey
Teaching Artist, Screenwriting

Dana Carly Eitches Sasi
Teaching Artist, Music

Rebecca Tager
Teaching Artist, Ceramics

Rosanna Tullio
Associate Director of Institutional Giving
Anabel Vallin
Programs Assistant


Board Officers

Jonathan Schreter
ChairBolton

Grant Withers
Vice ChairCapital Group

Patricia Brum
SecretarySnell & Wilmer, LLP

Sam Kunianski
TreasurerSK Consulting
Board Members

Kingsley Afemikhe
Xos Trucks
Eric Coleman
Television Producer
Peter Gal
Dreamworks
Brian Goldsmith
Lionsgate
Kapil Gupta
Boston Scientific
Jackie Harman
COYN
Brian Ishida
Pacific Western Bank
Jeffrey E. Jaeger
Standard Properties
Tae Kim
Collins Kim, LLP
Melissa Passman
Day Pitney LLP
Christian A. Pierce
Actor/Writer/Producer
Kevin Pleasant
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Margaret Richard
MLR Consulting Partners
Darris Sherman
NBCUniversal
Tom Stillwell
Big Fish Consulting
Julia Taylor-Brown
The Garcia Companies
Vanessa Walker-Oakes
Flintridge Preparatory SchoolThe Founders
- Bob Bates Co-Founder
- Irwin J. Jaeger Co-Founder
Founders Board Members
- Geoffrey Anenberg Creative Space
- Wallis Annenberg
- Kim Baer
- Bill & Tamara Bagnard
- Jon Basalone Trader Joe's
- Frank Baxter
- Craig Benell
- Alan Berro
- Cynthia Harnisch Breunig
- Al Brooks
- Marvin G. Burns
- Vera R. Campbell
- Ira Cohen
- Bob Davidson
- Sharon DeBriere
- Susan Emerling-Torres
- Mitchell Frank Spaceland Productions
- Bobbie Greenfield
- Crosby Haffner Synan Holdings
- Eugene L. Hernandez
- Douglas Hinchliffe
- Steve Hirsh
- Linda Hothem
- Paul C. Johnson
- Glorya Kaufman
- Laurie Konheim
- Melanie Lundquist
- Rick Madden Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Michael Maltzan
- Jay Mangel
- Jeff Marine
- Silvia Marjoram American Business Bank
- Randy Miller
- Connie Moran-Romero
- Scott Morielli Graff Californiawear
- Anthony E. Nicholas
- Drew Planting
- Maura Rampolla
- Monica Rosenthal
- Joseph Sanford
- Martha Saucedo
- Steve Schoenholz Tempted Apparel
- William Schoenholz
- Eric Schotz
- Michael Schreter
- Bob Shearin
- Mithra Sheybani Attorney
- Mark Slavkin
- Beatriz Stotzer
- Katerina Tana
- Joni Topper JP Morgan Chase